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prio

prio is the abbreviation of priority.

Meaning of priority

Noun

priority (countable and uncountable, plural priorities)

  1. An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  2. A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • 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.
    • In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
  4. 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."1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii
  5. Precedence; superior rank.
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act 1, scene 1, line 244
  6. Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

Words formed from prio

Questions about prio

What is prio the abbreviation of?
Prio is the abbreviation of priority.

Words near prio in the dictionary

  1. Printzes
  2. Prinz
  3. Prinzes
  4. Prinzmetal's angina
  5. prinzregententorte
  6. prio
  7. prio queue
  8. priodontine
  9. Prioleau
  10. Prioleaus
  11. Priolo

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