Priority

Priority may refer to:

• Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State
• Priority level, the priority of emergency communications
• Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records
• Priority right, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent
• Priority signs, a traffic sign that specifies which route has the right of way
• Scientific priority, the priority of scientific ideas
• Subordination (finance), the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets
• Principle of Priority, the principle that the oldest available name for a taxon is the valid one

See also

• Scheduling (computing), the way processes are assigned priorities in a run queue
• Preemption (disambiguation)