NOUN: "something given or meriting attention before competing alternatives" Crossword Clue

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NOUN: "something given or meriting attention before competing alternatives" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. status established in order of importance or urgency
2. preceding in time

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ATTENTION (noun)
1. the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
2. the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
SOMETHING (noun)
1. An indeterminate or unknown event.
2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified.

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