1. Status established in order of importance or urgency
   "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
   - precedence, precedency 
2. Preceding in time
   - antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency

Derived forms: priorities

See also: prior, prioritize

Type of: earliness, high status

Antonym: posteriority

Encyclopedia: Priority

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