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priorities

The correct spelling is priorities.

How to pronounce priorities

noun

Say it like: Prio-rit-ees

The correct spelling is priorities. An item's relative importance. For example: "He set his e-mail message's priority to high."

Usage Examples

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

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

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

Definition

noun

  1. 1.An item's relative importance.
  2. 2.A goal of a person or an organisation.
  3. 3.The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
  4. 4.(of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  5. 5.Precedence; superior rank.

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