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priority::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | precedence, precedency |
| Type of | high status |
| Has types | back burner, front burner |
| Derivation | prioritize |
national independence takes priority over class struggle.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency |
| Type of | earliness |
| Derivation | prior, prioritize |
Examples of priority
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Brownback agreed, and said his top priority as governor will be economic growth.
From the kansas.com
Creating jobs is President Obama's No. 1 human, economic and political priority.
From the edition.cnn.com
The stage is set, and final action should be a top priority for the full Senate.
From the kentucky.com
Representatives of BP and Transocean said that paying claims was a top priority.
From the kentucky.com
These plans align with the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy.
From the sciencedaily.com
This will take some time and the safety of people on the vessel is the priority.
From the auckland.scoop.co.nz
Anyone who got nothing in the first round will get priority in the second round.
From the telegraph.co.uk
You'd think their top priority would be repairing a relationship with customers.
From the sacbee.com
The board's priority should remain in alignment with being fiscally responsible.
From the dailyherald.com
- Precedence: status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
- Preceding in time
- Priority is a 1979 album released by the Pointer Sisters on the Planet Records label. Their second venture with producer Richard Perry, it was also their second venture into rock. An across-the-board critical success, but not as commercially revered as its predecessor it was.
- Priority ("right of way") rules
- Priority is a fundamental principal of modern botanical nomenclature and zoological nomenclature. Essentially, it is the principle of recognising the first valid application of a name to a plant or animal. ...
- In patent, industrial design rights and trademark laws, a priority right or right of priority is a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent, an industrial design or a trademark respectively. ...
- Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel. ...
- An item's relative importance; A goal of a person or an organisation; A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date; this sense?) Prior or antecedent in time, or preceding something else; as, priority application; Having precedence; of superior rank
- (PRIORITIES) funding sources develop annual program plans that include objectives and areas of emphasis. The areas of emphasis are called priorities, and the source awards grants for projects which most closely relate to those priorities. ...
