prio
prio is the abbreviation of priority.
Meaning of priority
Noun
priority (countable and uncountable, plural priorities)
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- dignity, eminence, seniority, superiority
- 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
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