Hypertext Webster Gateway: "priority"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Priority \Pri*or"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. priorit['e]. See {Prior}, a.]
1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time,
or of preceding something else; as, priority of
application.
2. Precedence; superior rank. --Shak.
{Priority of debts}, a superior claim to payment, or a claim
to payment before others.
Syn: Antecedence; precedence; pre["e]minence.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
priority
n 1: 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" [syn: {precedence}, {precedency}]
2: preceding in time [syn: {antecedence}, {antecedency}, {anteriority},
{precedence}, {precedency}] [ant: {posteriority}]
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