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The correct spelling is priority.
How to pronounce priority
noun
IPA: /pɹaɪˈɒɹɨti/
Say it like: Prio-rit-ee
The correct spelling is priority. 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.An item's relative importance.
- 2.A goal of a person or an organisation.
- 3.The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
- 4.(of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
- 5.Precedence; superior rank.
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