priority

1. An item's relative importance. (countable, uncountable) · He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
2. A goal of a person or an organisation. (countable, uncountable) · 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. (countable, uncountable) · 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. (countable, uncountable)
5. Precedence; superior rank. (countable, uncountable)
6. Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users. (countable, uncountable)

Plural priorities