Priorities

An item's relative importance.

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

A goal of a person or an organisation.

"She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games."

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."

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