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Needs vs Priority - What's the difference?

needs | priority |

As nouns the difference between needs and priority

is that needs is plural of lang=en while priority is an item's relative importance.

As an adverb needs

is of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; often with must, and equivalent to "of need".

As a verb needs

is third-person singular of need.

needs

English

Adverb

(-)
  • Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; often with must , and equivalent to "of need".
  • * We needs must jangle, till at last / We fought and I was beat.
  • * , (A Shropshire Lad), XXV, line 3-4

    • Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (need)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    priority

    English

    (wikipedia priority)

    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.
  • *
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority