- precedence, precedency, priority - status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
--1 is a kind of high status
--1 has particulars: back burner; front burner - priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency - preceding in time
--2 is a kind of earliness
Derived form: verb precede1 - precession, precedence, precedency - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
--3 is a kind of activity
Derived form: verb precede4