priority

Speech parts

1. priority - Noun

2. priority - Adjective

Meaning

The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

Precedence; superior rank.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

precedence antecedence focus importance rank emphasis significance seniority preeminence superiority primacy urgency precedency anteriority antecedency
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Antonyms

posteriority last equality rejection disadvantage hate
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Hypernyms

earliness high status

Hyponyms

back burner front burner

Phrases with the word

priority mail main priority utmost priority assign priority to assign priority accord priority

Examples

For NASA, space is still a high priority. Dan Quayle

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. Angela Merkel

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. Mark Twain

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority. Jack Osbourne

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal. Alfred Bester

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time. Anthony Stafford Beer

Close letter words and terms

prioritize prioritized prioritizer priority mail priority preferred stock priority processing