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How to pronounce priority
Say it like this: /pɹaɪˈoɹəti/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does priority mean?
nounAn 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.”
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