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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /pɹaɪˈɔɹɪtɪj/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Canada, General-American: prī-ôrə-tē
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• Canada, General-American: /pɹaɪˈoɹəti/
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• Canada, General-American: [pɹaɪˈoɹəɾi]
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• /pɹaɪˈɑɹəti/ New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore
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• [pɹaɪˈɑɹəɾi] New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore
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• Australian: /pɹɑeˈɔɹəti/
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• Australian: [pɹɑe̯ˈɔɹəɾi]
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• New-Zealand: /pɹaɪˈɒɹəti/
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• New-Zealand: [pɹɑe̯ˈɔ̟ɹəɾi]
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• Scotland: /pɾaɪˈɔɾɪte/
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• Wales: /pɾaɪˈɒɾɪti/
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• rhymes with -ɒɹɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: P R AY0 AO1 R AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity.

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Arabic: أَوَّلَِيَّة (ʔawwalaiyya) — item's relative importance
• Arabic: أَوْلَوِيَّة (ʔawlawiyya) — item's relative importance
• Armenian: առաջնություն (aṙaǰnutʻyun) — item's relative importance
• Armenian: պրիորիտետ (prioritet) — item's relative importance
• Azerbaijani: birincilik — item's relative importance
• Azerbaijani: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Belarusian: прыярытэ́т (pryjarytét) — item's relative importance
• Bulgarian: приорите́т (prioritét) — item's relative importance
• Catalan: prioritat — item's relative importance
• Chinese Mandarin: 優先權 /优先权 (yōuxiānquán) — item's relative importance
• Chinese Mandarin: 更重要的事 (gèng zhòngyào de shì) — item's relative importance
• Czech: priorita — item's relative importance
• Danish: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Dutch: voorrang — item's relative importance
• Dutch: prioriteit — item's relative importance
• Esperanto: prioritato — item's relative importance
• Estonian: prioriteet — item's relative importance
• Finnish: prioriteetti — item's relative importance
• Finnish: tärkeys — item's relative importance
• French: priorité — item's relative importance
• Galician: prioridade — item's relative importance
• Georgian: პრიორიტეტი (ṗrioriṭeṭi) — item's relative importance
• German: Priorität — item's relative importance
• German: Vorrang — item's relative importance
• German: Vorrangigkeit — item's relative importance
• German: größere Wichtigkeit — item's relative importance
• Greek: προτεραιότητα (proteraiótita) — item's relative importance
• Hindi: अग्रिमता (agrimtā) — item's relative importance
• Hindi: प्राथमिकता (prāthmiktā) — item's relative importance
• Hindi: वरीयता (varīytā) — item's relative importance
• Hindi: पूर्वता (pūrvatā) — item's relative importance
• Hungarian: elsőbbség — item's relative importance
• Icelandic: forgangur — item's relative importance
• Indonesian: prioritas — item's relative importance
• Italian: priorità — item's relative importance
• Japanese: 優先 (yūsen) — item's relative importance
• Japanese: 優先権 (yūsenken) — item's relative importance
• Kazakh: басымдық (basymdyq) — item's relative importance
• Korean: 우선 (useon) — item's relative importance
• Korean: 우선권 (useon'gwon) — item's relative importance
• Kyrgyz: приоритет (prioritet) — item's relative importance
• Kyrgyz: биринчилик (birincilik) — item's relative importance
• Latvian: prioritāte — item's relative importance
• Lithuanian: prioritetas — item's relative importance
• Macedonian: приорите́т (prioritét) — item's relative importance
• Māori: whakaarotau — item's relative importance
• Norwegian Bokmål: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Pashto: اوليت (awalyat) — item's relative importance
• Persian: اُولَویَّت (owlaviyyat) — item's relative importance
• Polish: priorytet — item's relative importance
• Portuguese: prioridade — item's relative importance
• Portuguese: prioridades — item's relative importance
• Romanian: prioritate — item's relative importance
• Romanian: întâietate — item's relative importance
• Russian: приорите́т (prioritét) — item's relative importance
• Serbo-Croatian: приорѝте̄т — item's relative importance
• Serbo-Croatian: првѐнство — item's relative importance
• Serbo-Croatian: priorìtēt — item's relative importance
• Serbo-Croatian: prvènstvo — item's relative importance
• Slovak: priorita — item's relative importance
• Slovene: prednost — item's relative importance
• Spanish: prioridad — item's relative importance
• Swedish: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Swedish: förtur — item's relative importance
• Swedish: företräde — item's relative importance
• Tajik: аввалият (avvaliyat) — item's relative importance
• Tajik: приоритет (prioritet) — item's relative importance
• Thai: สิทธิไปก่อน (sìt-tí-bpai-gɔ̀ɔn) — item's relative importance
• Thai: ความสําคัญ (kwaam-sǎm-kan) — item's relative importance
• Thai: ลําดับความสําคัญ (lam-dàp-kwaam-sǎm-kan) — item's relative importance
• Turkish: öncelik — item's relative importance
• Ukrainian: пріорите́т (priorytét) — item's relative importance
• Urdu: اَوَّلِیَّت (avvaliyyat) — item's relative importance
• Urdu: اَولَوِیَّت (aulaviyyat) — item's relative importance
• Uzbek: birinchilik — item's relative importance
• Uzbek: prioritet — item's relative importance
• Vietnamese: sự ưu tiên — item's relative importance
• Arabic: أَوَّلَِيَّة (ʔawwalaiyya) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Arabic: أَوْلَوِيَّة (ʔawlawiyya) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Arabic: اولوية (awlawiyya) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Chinese Mandarin: 目的 (mùdì) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Czech: priorita — goal of a person or an organisation
• Danish: prioritet — goal of a person or an organisation
• Esperanto: prioritato — goal of a person or an organisation
• Finnish: tärkeysjärjestys — goal of a person or an organisation
• Finnish: tavoite — goal of a person or an organisation
• French: priorité — goal of a person or an organisation
• Galician: prioridade — goal of a person or an organisation
• German: Priorität — goal of a person or an organisation
• Greek: προτεραιότητα (proteraiótita) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Hindi: अग्रिमता (agrimtā) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Malayalam: മുൻഗണന (muṉgaṇana) — goal of a person or an organisation
• Norwegian Bokmål: prioritet — goal of a person or an organisation
• Norwegian Nynorsk: prioritet — goal of a person or an organisation
• Polish: priorytet — goal of a person or an organisation
• Portuguese: prioridade — goal of a person or an organisation
• Portuguese: prioridades — goal of a person or an organisation
• Romanian: prioritate — goal of a person or an organisation
• Spanish: prioridad — goal of a person or an organisation
• Swedish: prioritering — goal of a person or an organisation
• Swedish: prioritet — goal of a person or an organisation
• Swedish: fokus — goal of a person or an organisation