Prioritization Prioritization is the activity that arranges items or activities in order of urgency. In the context of medical evaluation it is the establishment of the importance or the urgency of actions that are necessary to preserve the welfare of clien ...

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 Priority date is a United States immigration concept – it is the date when a principal applicant first reveals his or her intent of immigration to the US government. For family-sponsored applicants, the priority date is the date an immigration ...

, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State *

Priority right In patent law, industrial design law, and trademark law, a priority right or right of priority is a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent, an industrial design or a trademark respectively. The priority ri ...

, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent *

Subordination (finance) Subordination in banking and finance refers to the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets. United States law Subordination of debt Subordination is the process by which a creditor is placed in a lower priority f ...

, 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 Don Broco are a British rock music, rock band formed in Bedford, England, in 2008. The band consists of Rob Damiani (lead vocals), Simon Delaney (guitar), Tom Doyle (bass and programming) and Matt Donnelly (drums, lead and backing vocals). The ...

*"Priority", a song by Jolin Tsai from the 2004 album ''

Castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...

'' *"Priority", a song by SM Town from the 2022 album '' 2022 Winter SM Town: SMCU Palace'' *

Priority Records Priority Records is an American distribution company and record label known for artists including N.W.A, Ice Cube, MC Ren, Eazy-E, Master P, Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Silkk the Shocker, Jay-Z, Paris, Mack 10, 504 Boyz, Brotha Lynch Hung, ...

, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records

Science and technology

Scheduling priority In computing, scheduling is the action of assigning resources to perform tasks. The resources may be processors, network links or expansion cards. The tasks may be threads, processes or data flows. The scheduling activity is carried out by ...

, the way computing processes are assigned priorities in a run queue * Priority, a tag or attribute of a

requirement In engineering, a requirement is a condition that must be satisfied for the output of a work effort to be acceptable. It is an explicit, objective, clear and often quantitative description of a condition to be satisfied by a material, design, pro ...

in software or systems engineering *Priority of the scientific names of organisms, including: **

Priority (biology) Priority is a principle in biological taxonomy by which a valid scientific name is established based on the oldest available name. It is a decisive rule in botanical and zoological nomenclature to recognise the first binomial name (also called '' ...

in biological taxonomy, the principle that the oldest available name for a biological taxon is the valid one ** In

botanical nomenclature Botanical nomenclature is the formal, scientific naming of plants. It is related to, but distinct from taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. Plant taxonomy is concerned with grouping and classifying plants; Botany, botanical nomenclature then provides na ...

** In

zoological nomenclature The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its formal author, t ...

* Priority number, given to each functional group in IUPAC

organic nomenclature In chemical nomenclature, the IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry is a method of naming organic compound, organic chemical compounds as recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). It is published in the ''No ...

Scientific priority In science, priority is the credit given to the individual or group of individuals who first made the discovery or proposed the theory. Fame and honours usually go to the first person or group to publish a new finding, even if several researchers a ...

, the priority of scientific ideas

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Priority (fencing) Priority or right of way is the decision criterion used in foil and sabre fencing to determine which fencer receives the touch, or point, when both fencers land a hit within the same short time-frame (less than 1 second). After this window, if ...

, a scoring criterion in the sport of fencing *

Priority level Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) is a United States program that authorizes national security and emergency preparedness organizations to receive priority treatment for vital voice and data circuits or other telecommunications services. A ...

, the priority of emergency communications *

Priority mail The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal serv ...

, a service of the US Postal Service

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