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Priority 音標拼音: [prɑɪ'ɔrəti] n. 優先級
n. 優先權,優先順序,優先,前,依次 優先級優先權,優先順序,優先,前,依次 priority優先;優先(序);優先權;優先順序 priority優先 priority n 1: status established in order of importance or urgency; "... its precedence as the world' s leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; " national independence takes priority over class struggle" [ synonym: { precedence}, { precedency}, { priority}] 2: preceding in time [ synonym: { priority}, { antecedence}, { antecedency}, { anteriority}, { precedence}, { precedency}] [ ant: { posteriority}, { subsequence}, { subsequentness}] Priority \ Pri* or" i* ty\, n. [ Cf. F. priorit[' e]. See { Prior}, a.] 1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Precedence; superior rank. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Priority of debts}, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Antecedence; precedence; pre[" e] minence. [ 1913 Webster] 125 Moby Thesaurus words for " priority": accent, accomplishment, antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, arrangement, ascendancy, authority, bold front, brave face, brave front, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, deanship, display, dominion, eminence, emphasis, excellence, facade, face, facet, facia, favor, fore, forefront, foregoing, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front position, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, greatness, head, heading, high order, high rank, immediacy, import, importance, incomparability, influence, influentialness, inimitability, interest, lap, le pas, lead, leading, majority, mark, materiality, merit, moment, note, obverse, one- upmanship, order, ordering, paramountcy, precedence, precedency, preceding, precession, precursor, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preface, preference, prefix, prefixation, prelude, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primacy, privilege, prominence, proscenium, prothesis, rank, right, right- of- way, self- importance, seniority, significance, skill, stature, stress, success, superiority, supremacy, the lead, top priority, transcendence, transcendency, urgency, value, van, virtuosity, weight, weightiness, window dressing, worthPRIORITY. Going before; opposed to posteriority. ( q. v.) 2. He who has the precedency in time has the advantage in right, is the maxim of the law; not that time, considered barely in itself, can make any such difference, but because the whole power over a thing being secured to one person, this bars all others from obtaining a title to it afterwards. 1 Fonb. Eq. 320. 3. In the payment of debts, the United States are entitled to priority when the debtor is insolvent, or dies and leaves an insolvent estate. The priority was declared to extend to cases in which the insolvent debtor had made a voluntary assignment of all his property, or in which his effects had been attached as an absconding or absent debtor, on which an act of legal bankruptcy had been committed. 1 Kent, Com. 243; 1 Law Intell. 219, 251; and the cases there cited. 4. Among common creditors, he who has the oldest lien has the preference; it being a maxim both of law and equity, qui prior est tempore, potior est jure. 2 John. Ch. R. 608. Vide Insolvency; and Serg. Const. La*, Index, h. t.
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