priority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/
enpr: prī-ôrʹĭ-tē
ipa: /pɹaɪˈɔɹɪti/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: priorities
Etymology: From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.
Surface analysis: prior + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
glosses: An item's relative importance.
examples: text: She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
glosses: A goal of a person or an organisation.
examples: text: In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
text: 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.
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 59:
glosses: The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
examples: text: 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."
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
raw_tags: of a name
examples: text: Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
ref: 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act 1, scene 1, line 244:
text: Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […]
ref: 1998, Mary Whitby, The Propaganda of Power: The Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity, BRILL, →ISBN, page 308:
text: 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?
ref: 2007 November 1, Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, Islam: Questions and Answers - Manners (Part 1), MSA Publication Limited, →ISBN, page 301:
text: 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,[…]
ref: 2010 January 1, A. W. Tozer, Tozer Speaks to Students: Chapel Messages Preached at Wheaton College, Moody Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Precedence; superior rank.
topics: transport
glosses: Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: anteriority
raw_tags: of being prior
sense: superior rank
word: dignity
sense: superior rank
word: eminence
sense: superior rank
word: seniority
sense: superior rank
word: superiority
Derived terms: aperture priority
aperture-priority
Marcan priority
Markan priority
prioritise
prioritize
prioritization
priority queue
priority road
priority seat
shutter priority
top priority