Definition of "priority"

But it's now platform extension work which will allow the station to handle LNER Azuma trains which needs to take priority, if a direct service to London King's Cross is to begin in 2021.

2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 59

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."

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page viii

Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act 1, scene 1, line 244

Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […]

1998, Mary Whitby, The Propaganda of Power: The Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity, BRILL, page 308

Who has priority, one's mother or one's wife? Question: To whom should a married man should give much preference, either his mother or wife?

2007 November 1, Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, Islam: Questions and Answers - Manners (Part 1), MSA Publication Limited, page 301

The Holy Ghost is here and He has priority—remember that. The Holy Ghost has priority over your pastor, your church, your teachers—priority over every human thing. He is God, and being God, His voice has priority over all voices, […]

2010 January 1, A. W. Tozer, Tozer Speaks to Students: Chapel Messages Preached at Wheaton College, Moody Publishers