Word Finder - priority

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An item's relative importance.

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He set his e-mail message's priority to high.

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A goal of a person or an organisation.

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She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.

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

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In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.

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

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Precedence; superior rank.

The first priority was rescuing children.

The priority should probably be assigned to the Orosius, but the point has been much debated.

Somehow it simply wasn't top priority in her life right now.

I'll make it a priority from now on.

With a baby on the way, Quinn's and Martha's top priority was a locality where they could raise a family in a large and comfortable home.

Our first and foremost priority is recovering abducted children, as soon as possible.

Shaw's generic name, although having priority to that of Blumenbach, could not be retained, as it had been used at a still earlier time (1793) by Herbst for a genus of Coleoptera.

The definitions of the finite ordinals can be expressed without use of the corresponding cardinals, so there is no essential priority of cardinals to ordinals.

I have made myself a priority and face every day as if on a mission.

The market is bustling on weekends, so if keeping your family or group together is a priority, it may be difficult here.

It's a matter of priority.

The fact that other philosophers, notably Etienne Louis Malus and Augustin Fresnel, were pursuing the same investigations contemporaneously in France does not invalidate Brewster's claim to independent discovery, even though in one or two cases the priority must be assigned to others.

Apart from its intrinsic merits as a learned and valuable addition to classification, this work is interesting in the history of ornithology because of the wholesale changes of nomenclature it introduced as the result of much diligence and zeal in the application of the strict rule of priority to the names of birds.

His mathematical researches were also concerned with the theory of equations, but the question as to his priority on several points has been keenly discussed.

The owner/waiter/host makes pleasing his guests a top priority.

Her apprehension was assuming a reduced priority.

Neither Shipton appeared to consider tidiness a high priority.

The Horsemen were priority.

Eat your three meals a day and make it a priority.

It springs from the same school of thought as the Apocalypse of Baruch, and its affinities with the latter are so numerous and profound that scholars have not yet come to any consensus as to the relative priority of either.

Service is top priority at this restaurant, with the staff having three tables each.

Our wedding definitely took priority.

Having children of her own was such a priority that she had missed something truly gratifying.

In so far as the older doctrine is open to the charge of neglecting the conative and teleological side of experience it can afford to be grateful to its critics for recalling it to its own eponymous principle of the priority of the "ideal " to the " idea," of needs to the conception of their object.

Historical priority of development, exceptionally extensive and well utilized water-power, and good transportation facilities are largely responsible for the exceptional rank of Massachusetts as a manufacturing state.

The first priority in treating any fracture is to address the entire medical status of the patient.

Areas that are low income are given priority.

She wasn't sure what the Black God's priority was, but she wanted to find Darian.

Clausen, however, has undoubted priority.

Priority of mention is due to St James of Compostella (Santiago, in the Spanish province of Galicia).

This application was opposed by Murdoch on the ground of his priority in invention, and the bill was thrown out, but coming to parliament for a second time in 1810, Winsor succeeded in getting it passed in a very much curtailed form, and, a charter being granted later in 181 2, the company was called the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, and was the direct forerunner of the present London Gas Light and Coke Company.

The Upper Bann contains the NI Priority Species otter and river water crowfoot.

That's the top priority, particularly against the background of growing cynicism in the sector over the lack of progress on funding reform.

The need for affordable warmth assumes a high priority for older people.

Allowing as much natural light into a home as possible, whatever the interior design style, is a priority, as is inviting in the refreshing ocean breeze.

Making stress reduction a priority will get you in the habit of feeling calm more often.

By this means she detected in 1783 three remarkable nebulae, and during the eleven years 1786-1797 eight comets, five of them with unquestioned priority.

Series B, C and D (series A having already been completely redeemed by the action of the sinking fund) were replaced by the creation of new 4% bonds to a nominal amount of £T32,738,772, with a sinking fund of 0.45% per annum, bearing identical rights and privileges, and ranking immediately after, the priority bonds.

The monarchs on whom the privilegium was conferred received a right of priority with respect to the provinces first discovered by them.

As few scholars will now claim priority for the text of Deuteronomy, this division may be viewed as exploded.

If the West Indies belonged to Spain by priority of discovery, Portugal might claim the East Indies by the same right.

They indeed rested their claims on the undeniable priority of their services to the faith, but they also appealed to their blood relationship with the Prophet as a corroboration of their right to the inheritance; and the ties of blood connected them with the Koreish in general.

We need devices, indeed, to determine priority or superior claim to be " better known absolutely or in the order of nature," but on the whole the problem is fairly faced.4 Of science Aristotle takes for his examples sometimes celestial physics, more often geometry or arithmetic, sometimes a concrete science, e.g.

What Schopenhauer professed, therefore, is to have dispelled the claims of reason to priority and to demonstrate the relativity and limitation of science.

Although the honour of priority is admitted to belong to the American engineer Robert Fulton, there appears to be no doubt that Fulton had received very material assistance in the construction of his vessel from Bell and others in Great Britain.

The main arguments brought forward by those who maintain the priority of Ezekiel are (1) the fact that H makes mention of a high priest, whereas Ezekiel betrays no knowledge of such an official, and (2) that the author of Lev.

As a surgeon, Simon's work came second to his interest in sanitary science, but he claimed priority over Cock in the operation of perineal puncture of the urethra in cases of retention from stricture.

Having established his priority, Pascal published his investigations, which occasioned a great sensation among his contemporaries, and Wallis was enabled to correct his methods.

The priority of the Greek Life of Pachomius over the Coptic may be said to be established; the historical character and value of this life are now fully recognized.

He affirms the priority of will to knowledge and the dependence of consciousness upon physical attention.