English-Spanish translations for priority

• prioridad
  El exceso de prioridades hace que no haya ninguna prioridad. Too many priorities means no priority at all.

Definition of priority

• An item's relative importance
• A goal of a person or an organisation
• The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior. is this not just same as sense 1?--
• A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date
• Precedence; superior rank

Examples

• He set his e-mail messages 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

Related words

• apriority
• priority seat
• priority queue
• aperture priority
• order of priority