English Dictionary

priority

/pɹaɪˈɒɹɨti/

noun

An item's relative importance. / A goal of a person or an organisation. / The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.

Priority should be given to safety in any situation.

意味（1）

An item's relative importance.

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

意味（2）

A goal of a person or an organisation.

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

意味（3）

The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.

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

意味（4）

(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

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.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.

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

意味（6）

(transport) right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users