priorities

/P R AY0 AO1 R AH0 T IY0 Z/

noun

1
An item's relative importance.
“He set his e-mail message's priority to high.”
2
A goal of a person or an organisation.
“She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.”
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.”
4
(of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
5
Precedence; superior rank.

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