Category:Priority

Pri*or"i*ty, n. Etym: [cf. F. priorité. See prior, a.]

1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of Preceding something else; as, priority of application.

2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior Claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.

Syn. -- antecedence; precedence; preëminence.