priority

An item's relative importance.

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

A goal of a person or an organisation.

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

The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.

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

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.

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

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."

Precedence; superior rank.

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 […]