Priority

noun

1. An item's relative importance.

   "He set his e-mail message's priority to high."

2. A goal of a person or an organisation.

   "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.

   "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. (of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
5. Precedence; superior rank.