priority

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/|/pɹaɪˈɔɹɪtɪj/    美 /pɹaɪˈoɹəti/|[pɹaɪˈoɹəɾi]|/pɹɑeˈɔɹəti/|[pɹɑe̯ˈɔɹəɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
    — Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
  5. Precedence; superior rank. countable,uncountable
    — Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
  6. Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users. countable,uncountable

词形变化

priorities plural

词汇关系

近义词
anteriority
反义词
disfocus
衍生词
aperture priority aperture-priority get one's priorities right get one's priorities straight Marcan priority Markan priority nonpriority prioritarian prioritied prioritise prioritize prioritization priority queue priority road priority seat shutter priority subpriority top priority unpriority

词源

From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.
Surface analysis: prior + -ity.
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