priority
Pronunciation:
/pɹaɪˈɒɹɨti//pɹaɪˈɔɹɪ̈ti/noun
Definitions
An item's relative importance.
Example: He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
A goal of a person or an organisation.
Example: She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
Example: In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
(of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.