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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.

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priority

IPA(Pronunciation)

/pɹaɪˈɒɹɨti/

Noun

countable uncountable of a name obsolete

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.

Japanese Meaning

優先順位（物事の相対的な重要度を示す） / 優先事項（個人や組織が最も重視すべき目標・課題） / 先行性（他の物事より早く、または先にある状態）

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Setting the project's timeline is a priority, so we need to finalize the schedule today.

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プロジェクトのタイムラインを決めることは優先度が高いため、今日中にスケジュールを確定する必要があります。

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An item's relative importance.

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

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Sense（2）

A goal of a person or an organisation.

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

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Sense（3）

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

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Sense（4）

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

Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

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