priority

  1. Adjective.  Prior or antecedent in time, or preceding something else; as, priority application.
  2. Adjective.  (nonstandard) Having precedence; of superior rank.
  3. Noun.  An item's relative importance.
  4. Noun.  A goal of a person or an organisation.
  5. Noun.  (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

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