Meaning of priority | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An item's relative importance.
   countable, uncountable
2. A goal of a person or an organisation.
   countable, uncountable
3. right of way
4. The act, condition, or right of preceding:antecedence, precedence, precedency, right of way.
5. The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
   countable, uncountable
6. before. Prior to working in America, he had travelled in Europe. voor, voor die tyd قَبْل преди antes de před vor inden πρινantes de enne پیش از ennen avant de לִפנֵי- से पहले (vmit) megelőzően sebelum á undan, fyrir prima di ～の以前に (~에) 앞서 prieš pirms sebelum voor, voordatfør, forut forprzed مخكى تر antes de înainte de до, прежде pred pred pre före, innan ก่อนหน้า ...-den önce /evvel 在...之前 раніше, до پہلے trước khi 在...之前
7. A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
   countable, uncountable
8. prioridad, preferencia, precedencia.
9. Precedence; superior rank.
   countable, uncountable
10. Precedence, especially established by order of importance or urgency.
11. Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
    countable, uncountable
12. An established right to precedence.
13. A preceding or coming earlier in time.
14. Something afforded or deserving prior attention.
15. the condition of being prior; antecedence; precedence
16. the right of precedence over others
17. something given specified attention: my first priority.

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.”

“But it's now platform extension work which will allow the station to handle LNER Azuma trains which needs to take priority, if a direct service to London King's Cross is to begin in 2021.”

“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."”

“Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.”

“Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […]”

“Who has priority, one's mother or one's wife? Question: To whom should a married man should give much preference, either his mother or wife?”

“The Holy Ghost is here and He has priority—remember that. The Holy Ghost has priority over your pastor, your church, your teachers—priority over every human thing. He is God, and being God, His voice has priority over all voices,[…]”

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