priority

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹaɪɒɹɪti/ SAMPA: /"praIQrIti:/

Adjective

priority (not comparable)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Prior or antecedent in time, or preceding something else; as, priority application.
2. (nonstandard) Having precedence; of superior rank.

Translations

quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else

Chinese: Mandarin: 優先 (cmn), 优先 (cmn) (yōuxiān) French: antérieur (fr), précédant (fr) Portuguese: prioritário (pt) m., prioritária (pt) f., prioritários (pt) m. pl., prioritárias (pt) f. pl.

Russian: приоритетный (ru) (prioritétnyj) Spanish: antecedente (es), anterior (es), precedente (es) Turkish: öncelik (tr), takaddüm (tr)

Precedence; superior rank

Catalan: prioritat  (ca) f. French: prioritaire (fr) Portuguese: prioritário (pt) m., prioritária (pt) f., prioritários (pt) m. pl., prioritárias (pt) f. pl.

Russian: приоритетный (ru) Spanish: prioritario (es)

Usage notes

Note that most other dictionaries list this only as a noun; some people will correct you if you use it as an adjective.

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.

goal of a person or an organisation

Chinese: Mandarin: 目的 (zh) (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.