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.

Noun

(en noun)

One of the choices which can be made.

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, year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Becky Ashton , title=QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.}}

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, author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options' are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present ' options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

The freedom or right to choose.

(finance)(legal) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.

(graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option")