priorities

noun

An item's relative importance.

A goal of a person or an organisation.

The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.

Precedence; superior rank.

(transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

Roots

priorprior- · Latin · former, earlier

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