Prioritization is an action that arranges items or activities in order of importance.

Priority may refer specifically to:

Law

  • Priority or right of way on the road, see Traffic § Priority (right of way)
  • Priority signs, a traffic sign that specifies which route has the right of way
  • Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State
  • Priority right, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent
  • Subordination (finance), the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets

Music

  • Priority (Pointer Sisters album)
  • Priority (Imperials album), 1980
  • Priorities, the debut album by Bedfordshire-based rock band Don Broco
  • "Priority", a song by Jolin Tsai from the 2004 album Castle
  • "Priority", a song by SM Town from the 2022 album 2022 Winter SM Town: SMCU Palace
  • Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records

Science and technology

  • Scheduling priority, the way computing processes are assigned priorities in a run queue
  • Priority, a tag or attribute of a requirement in software or systems engineering
  • Priority of the scientific names of organisms, including:
  • Priority (biology) in biological taxonomy, the principle that the oldest available name for a biological taxon is the valid one
  • In botanical nomenclature
  • In zoological nomenclature
  • Priority number, given to each functional group in IUPAC organic nomenclature
  • Scientific priority, the priority of scientific ideas

Other uses

  • Priority (fencing), a scoring criterion in the sport of fencing
  • Priority level, the priority of emergency communications
  • Priority mail, a service of the US Postal Service

See also

  • Preemption (disambiguation)
  • Preference