top priority
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3.5
- noun
- /tɑp praɪˈɔrɪti/
:
máxima prioridad
- Your safety is our top priority.
- give top priority
- remain a top priority
- become a top priority
And he told me it was not a top priority.
- And he told me it was not a top priority.
- Well, the responsibility to get this right is our top priority.
- A stands for your most important tasks, things that should be your top priority.
- So like paying attention to little Walid is not top priority, you know what I mean?
- I don't think I've met a family that's more where healing is the top priority.
- But the president gets to declare his, his top priorities.
- What, what is the thing that you're, what, what would you, what's your top priority right now?
- Saving lives must be top priority.
- So I try to, on a yearly basis as one of my top priorities, block out these weeks of time in nature.
- And obviously getting back into like my social media stuff, I, it's one of my top priorities because it genuinely does make me happy.
- So just kind of putting a list of like my top priorities for the type of partner that I would like to have long term.
- She also decides somehow that something that should be one of their top priorities is finding the antidote for crystallos venom.
- And I, I think we need to pay attention to what's important to us and how we can devote our time clearly to our top priority items.
Examples
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My health is a top priority in my life.
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The safety and well-being of our colony is Weyland-Yutani's top priority.
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Finding the Failure Mobile is now our top priority.
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The issue of drug use by students should be a top priority on that agenda.
Academic text (1990) -
Bringing down inflation was a top priority, and here the government succeeded.
Academic text (1996) -
For now, treating the wounded is our top priority.
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Security has been and will remain the Ministry's top priority.
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The Kurdish Question has been one of the top priority items in domestic politics for the AK Party government.
Academic text (2017) -
Therefore, one of our top priorities and challenges in the coming years is the defense and consolidation of Taiwan's democracy.
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Ensuring customer satisfaction is our top priority this quarter.
Synonyms
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3.7
A thing you think is more important and should be done first
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3.7
The main person, thing, or idea that gets most attention
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5.2
A very important problem that must be solved first
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the most important task or matter' is directly and compositionally derived from 'top' (highest) modifying 'priority' (precedence/importance), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE. This modifier + noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English composition rules, making the phrase immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Top priority comes from the simple image of a list where the most important item is placed at the top. So it means 'the thing you give the most attention' or 'the first thing to do'.