Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An item's relative importance.

    He set his e-mail message's priority to high.

    Priorität, Vorrang, Vorrangigkeit

    приорите́тprioritét

    пріорите́тpriorytét

  2. (countable, uncountable)A goal of a person or an organisation.

    She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.

    Priorität

  3. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.

    In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Precedence; superior rank.

  6. (countable, uncountable)Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

More definitions
  • preceding in time
  • status established in order of importance or urgency

Examples

238 sentences
  1. We've given your order highest priority.

    Вашому замовленню присвоєно найвищий рівень пріоритету.

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  2. Tom and I have different priorities.

    У нас із Томом різні пріоритети.

    ruУ нас с Томом разные приоритеты.

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  3. Tom says he has other priorities.

    Том каже, що має інші пріоритети.

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  4. Tom and Mary had different priorities.

    У Тома та Мері були різні пріоритети.

    ruУ Тома и Мэри разные приоритеты.

    deTom und Maria hatten unterschiedliche Prioritäten.

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  5. Tom's priorities have changed.

    У Тома змінилися пріоритети.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
item's relative importance:
Русский
By meaning 1
item's relative importance:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
item's relative importance:

Origin

From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.

From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.

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Forms

plural: priorities
Singularpriority
Pluralpriorities

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms
state of not focusing or prioritizing:disfocus
posteriority

Word family

15 related words

Collocations

10 patterns
  • priorities priorities
  • different priorities priorities
  • priorities priorities are
  • my priorities priorities
  • our priorities priorities
  • have different priorities
  • of priorities priorities
  • your priorities priorities
  • different priorities
  • top priority

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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