Priority and Succession

Priority

Priority noun - The right to one's attention before other things considered less important.

Usage example: the committee has decided to give your request priority, so you'll have a meeting early tomorrow morning

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Succession and priority are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Succession" instead a noun "Priority".

Succession noun - Acquisition of property by descent or by will.

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Priority and succession are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Priority" instead a noun "Succession".

big	big priority	big succession
main	main priority	main succession
new	new priority	new succession
immediate	immediate priority	immediate succession
Other adjectives: primary, previous.

Then the Succession Wars started and military budgets took priority over such expensive flights of fancy and massive terraforming projects stopped.

Source: All Planets Are Earth-Like
Julian has a Wave Motion Gun special with absolute priority, extremely powerful basic projectiles with slight homing abilities and another massive explosion, and he also has to be hit twice in rapid succession before he'll take damage or even flinch.

Source: SNK Boss / Other Fighting Games

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