The meaning of PRIORITY is the quality or state of being prior. How to use priority in a sentence.

Repairing the plumbing is a priority task (= more important than other jobs). Banks normally give priority to large businesses when deciding on loans (= they deal with them first because they …

Priority definition: the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.. See examples of PRIORITY used in a sentence.

If something is a priority, it is the most important thing you have to do or deal with, or must be done or dealt with before everything else you have to do. Being a parent is her first priority. …

Definition of priority noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Precedence, especially established by order of importance or urgency. 2. a. An established right to precedence. b. An authoritative rating that establishes such precedence. 3. A preceding or …

Priority comes from the word prior, which means to come before something else. A priority is the concern, interest or desire that comes before all others.

Synonyms for PRIORITY: precedence, right-of-way, urgency, preference, primacy, order, preeminence, succession, ascendancy, transcendence

His job seems to take priority over everything else. (Definition of priority from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

If something is a priority, it is the most important thing you have to achieve or deal with before everything else.