priority — Kamus bahasa Inggris

Nomina

1. An item's relative importance.

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

2. A goal of a person or an organisation.

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

3. 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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   But it's now platform extension work which will allow the station to handle LNER Azuma trains which needs to take priority, if a direct service to London King's Cross is to begin in 2021.

4. A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

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   • of a name

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   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."

5. Precedence; superior rank.

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   Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

   Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […]

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   Who has priority, one's mother or one's wife? Question: To whom should a married man should give much preference, either his mother or wife?

   The Holy Ghost is here and He has priority—remember that. The Holy Ghost has priority over your pastor, your church, your teachers—priority over every human thing. He is God, and being God, His voice has priority over all voices,[…]

6. Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

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Nomina

1. status established in order of importance or urgency

   Sinonim

   precedenceprecedency

   Istilah yang lebih umum

   high status

   Contoh

   … its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals

   national independence takes priority over class struggle

2. preceding in time

   Sinonim

   antecedenceantecedencyanteriorityprecedenceprecedency

   Antonim

   posteriority

   Istilah yang lebih umum

   earliness