Noun

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(philosophy) The quality or state of being known a priori

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Noun

(priorities)

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.

(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

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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 ."

(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.

* 1608 , , I. i. 244:

Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.