priority

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noun
Plural noun:
priorities
  1. 1.

    (countable, uncountable)An item's relative importance.

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

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)A goal of a person or an organisation.

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

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)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. 4.

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

  5. 5.

    (countable, uncountable)Precedence; superior rank.

  6. 6.

    (countable, uncountable)(transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

dignityeminencesenioritysuperioritysuperior rank dignity, eminence, seniority, superiority

Trái nghĩa

state of not focusing or prioritizing disfocus

Cùng gốc / liên quan

nonpriorityprioritarianprioritiedsubpriorityunpriorityaperture priorityprioritise,prioritizeprioritizationshutter prioritytop priorityaperture-priorityMarcan prioritypriority queueMarkan prioritypriority seatpriority roadget one's priorities rightget one's priorities straight

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, dictionary, wiktionary · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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