Usually means: Importance requiring attention before others.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word priority:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. priority: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. priority: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. priority: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. priority: Collins English Dictionary
  5. priority: Vocabulary.com
  6. Priority, priority: Wordnik
  7. priority: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. priority: Wiktionary
  9. priority: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. priority: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. priority: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. priority: Dictionary.com
  13. priority: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. priority: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Priority (album), Priority (botany), Priority (fencing), Priority (right of way), Priority: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Priority: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. priority: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. priority: Rhymezone
  19. priority: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. priority: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. priority: Free Dictionary
  22. priority: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. priority: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. priority: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. priority: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. priority: Legal dictionary
  11. priority: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Priority (fencing), priority: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. priority: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. priority: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. priority: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An item's relative importance.
noun:  A goal of a person or an organisation.
noun:  The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
noun:  (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
noun:  Precedence; superior rank.
noun:  (transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

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