priority
An item's relative importance.
Example
“He set his e-mail message's priority to high.”
Other meanings
A goal of a person or an organisation.
“She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.”
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.”
Synonyms
- precedence
Related words
- nonpriority
- prioritarian
- prioritied
- subpriority
- unpriority
- aperture priority
- prioritization
- shutter priority
- top priority
- aperture-priority
- Marcan priority
- priority queue
Word history
From Latin "priōritās".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “priority” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.