priority claim meaning

• [Business]
  noun [C]

  (Law )

  a right that a company or person has to be paid money owed to them by a bankrupt company before others

• Enhancing the current system of priority claims protection; and
• Maintaining the current level of priority claims protection for small depositors in hong kong i . e . maintenance of the status quo
• However, WRUC's priority claim is not widely accepted.
• His father also had to surrender his priority claims against the bank.
• De Romas pursued his priority claim to the kite experiment.
• Top priority claims are any orders placed after the company filed for bankruptcy protection.
• Grigsby said, " it will be sent for top priority claims ."
• He was taken as a priority claim of the Edmonton Oilers in the'79 expansion draft.
• In the Enron bankruptcy, laid-off workers had priority claims amounting to $ 4, 500 apiece.

• "priority claim" meaning in Chinese: 优先权声明
• "priority claim" meaning in Japanese: 優先権｛ゆうせんけん｝の主張｛しゅちょう｝
• "priority claim" meaning in Russian: приоритетное требование, преимущественное требование