Status establishing relative importance or urgency

Usage examples of priority.

Promising new vaccines are being developed, and one of our top priorities in safeguarding our nation against possible anthrax attacks is to develop, manufacture, and stockpile a new generation of vaccine.

The FBI should report regularly to Congress in its semiannual program reviews designed to identify whether each field office is appropriately addressing FBI and national program priorities.

But because of the relatively low priority given by SCAP to the physical reconstruction of Japanese cities and the gap between any drawing up and implementation of large-scale architectural projects, the postwar building boom in Japan did not begin until the early 1950s.

In their dealings with him they had found him a dedicated man, completely bound up in the Moonraker, living for nothing but its success, driving his men to the limit, fighting for priorities in material with other departments, goading the Ministry of Supply into clearing his requirements at Cabinet level.

Peter Wyatt had gone down to the labs, worried that the weekend technicians might not grant the determination of a blood morphine level on a corpse the priority he thought it deserved.

In many agencies, earthquake preparedness has been accorded a low priority in their programs.

By subordinating the obligation to procreate, rejecting divorce, and implicitly sanctioning monogamous relationships, Jesus reverses traditional priorities, declaring, in effect, that other obligations, including marital ones, are now more important than procreation.

But the promo guys only handle priority records, the ones with money behind them.

His first priority was to distance himself from this prosecutorial catastrophe.

I wish, by sight-aligning a reticle and numbering it verbally or by touch if I want other than sequential priority.

You are hereby authorized priority transport to Sandia Spaceport, North American Union, and from there to New York via commercial hyperliner.

Then I want spot scans targeting this area of investigation in descending order of technical priority or rank, until the entire NGC population and their immediate families are cleared.

They had hanged some outside the gates of their forts and sold others into slavery, but Scapula had long made it known that the capture alive of the Boudica or Caradoc or any of their kin was a matter of highest priority and that their fate, in Rome, would not be the swift death of a battlefield hanging.

A safe place, arms for food gathering and protection, a water supply and storable food are obvious survival requirements, but after those provisions have been made, priorities are less easily defined, and those which seem expensive or esoteric tend to be neglected.

Starfleet commander with a specialty in command or strategic operations, and therfore a priority target.