priority
An item's relative importance.
Noun 4 meanings
An item's relative importance.
“He set his e-mail message's priority to high.”
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.”
A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
Etymology
From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity.
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PRIORITY at a glance
PRIORITY has 8 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (P 3 + R 1 + I 1 + O 1 + R 1 + I 1 + T 1 + Y 4) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,508 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with priority
All rhymes- CITY9
- UNIVERSITY16
- COMMUNITY18
- SECURITY13
- QUALITY19
- ABILITY12
- OPPORTUNITY18
- MAJORITY20
- REALITY10
- ACTIVITY16
- AUTHORITY15
- RESPONSIBILITY21
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