Definition of "uppermost"

Well, to me, if you are restricting it to economic policy — because I can surely think of some noneconomic policy concerns that are more uppermost in my mind.

2005, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Tax reform: hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, June 8, 2005, Volume 36, Issues 109-123‎

As a result, it is not always an easy matter to evaluate, as an outsider, the effectiveness of a life-task strategy (i.e., sometimes the objective indicators of success and failure do not coincide with the goals most uppermost in a person's mind).

2015, Lawrence A. Pervin, Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology‎

For him, as for his colleagues, concern with priestly comportment and purity is uppermost.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 735