• (RP) IPA: /pɹaɪˈɒɹɨti/
• (GA) enPR: prī-ôrʹĭ-tē, IPA: /pɹaɪˈɔɹɪ̈ti/

priority

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. (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     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."

5. (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.

• (state of being prior) See Thesaurus:anteriority
• (superior rank) dignity, eminence, seniority, superiority

• French: priorité
• German: Priorität
• Italian: priorità
• Portuguese: prioridade, prioridades
• Russian: приорите́т
• Spanish: prioridad

• French: priorité
• German: Priorität
• Portuguese: prioridade, prioridades
• Spanish: prioridad