priority

English

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Etymology

From Old French priorite, from Latin prioritas.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ X-SAMPA: /praI"QrIti:/

Noun

priority (plural priorities)

1. An item's relative importance.

   He set his e-mail message's priority to high.

2. A goal of a person or an organisation.

   She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.

3. (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii

     Neither [Jones] […] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

Derived terms

• prioritize
• prioritise (non-US)
• prioritization
• top priority

Translations

item's relative importance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 優先權 (cmn), 优先权 (cmn) (yōuxiānquán), 更重要的|事 (gèng zhòngyào de shì)

• Czech: priorita (cs) f
• Danish: prioritet (da) f
• Finnish: prioriteetti (fi), tärkeys (fi)
• French: priorité (fr) f

• German: Priorität (de) f
• Japanese: 優先 (ja) (ゆうせん, yūsen), 優先権 (ja) (ゆうせんけん, yūsenken)
• Portuguese: prioridade (pt) f, prioridades (pt) f pl
• Romanian: prioritate (ro)
• Russian: приоритет (ru) (prioritét) m
• Swedish: prioritet (sv) c, förtur (sv) c, företräde (sv) n

goal of a person or an organisation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 目的 (cmn) (mùdì)

• Czech: priorita (cs) f
• Danish: prioritet (da) f
• Egyptian Arabic: اولوية (awlawiyya) f
• Finnish: tärkeysjärjestys (fi), tavoite (fi)

• French: priorité (fr) f
• German: Priorität (de) f
• Portuguese: prioridade (pt) f, prioridades (pt) f pl
• Spanish: prioridad (es) f
• Swedish: prioritering (sv) c, prioritet (sv) c, fokus (sv) n

attributive use — see prioritized