priority
priority
nounDefinition of PRIORITY
the right to one's attention before other things considered less important <the committee has decided to give your request priority, so you'll have a meeting early tomorrow morning>
Synonyms precedence, right-of-way
Related Words preference; urgency; ascendancy (also ascendency), preeminence, primacy, supremacy; transcendence, transcendency; order, progression, sequence, succession; front burner
Near Antonyms back burner
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