Go to MSN Homeencarta®
Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Click to move up the list of words
absolute advantage
absolute auction
absolute ceiling
absolute magnitude
absolute majority
absolute music
absolute pitch
absolute poverty
absolute priority
absolute temperature
absolute value
absolute zero
absolutely
absolution
absolutism
absolve
absonant
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

absolute priority
ab·so·lute pri·or·i·ty


noun 
Definition:
 
finance senior creditors' right to full payment: if a corporation goes bankrupt, the right of the most senior creditors to be paid in full before junior creditors, even if the junior creditors get nothing
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Advertisement
© 2009 Microsoft