0 something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things -- 優先考慮的事
The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority. 管理部門似乎並不認為應該優先考慮辦公室安全問題。
My first/top priority is to find somewhere to live. 我首先要考慮的是找個地方住。
You have to learn to get your priorities right/straight (= decide which are the most important jobs or problems and deal with them first). 你必須學會先處理最重要的事。
Repairing the plumbing is a priority task (= more important than other jobs). 修好水管是當務之急。
Banks normally give priority to large businesses when deciding on loans (= they deal with them first because they consider them most important). 銀行在發放貸款時通常優先考慮大企業。
Official business requirements obviously take/have priority over personal requests (= official business matters will be dealt with first). 公事顯然應該置於私事之前。
We need to establish a new set of priorities.
If agriculture were given priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.
The establishment of new areas of employment is a priority.
However, some participants reported that cancer had no impact on their life priorities.
Each agency must set priorities, since all requests will not be funded.
Underlying all these priorities is the problem of synthesis, since not all the priorities mentioned above point in the same direction.