priority

CEFRC1

/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/

noun

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01
noun
Something considered more important than other things and handled first.
02
noun
Extra detail
A goal of a person or an organisation.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
An item's relative importance.
A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

In context

We have given your order highest priority.
He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.

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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.
2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 59
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."
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,...
Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act 1, scene 1, line 244
Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […]
1998, Mary Whitby, The Propaganda of Power: The Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity, BRILL, →ISBN, page 308
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?
2007 November 1, Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, Islam: Questions and Answers - Manners (Part 1), MSA Publication Limited, →ISBN, page 301

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From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity.