to prioritize
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4.1
- verb
- /praɪˈɔːrəˌtaɪz/
- US
:
priorizar
- I need to prioritize my tasks to ensure I meet the deadline.
What you've done wrong is that you, you didn't prioritize yourself.
- What you've done wrong is that you, you didn't prioritize yourself.
- These are the same foods that are prioritized in a Zoe oriented diet.
- The first error is they prioritize a single value.
- Second thing is stop prioritizing false emergencies.
- But I knew that as a creator, I wasn't feeling prioritized on Facebook.
- I mean, it's made me shift how I prioritize what we're doing with chess.
- In effect, NASDAQ system prioritized price over time.
- And it helped me prioritize what to stress about.
Examples
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Educators should consider prioritizing instruction to address the components that will have the greatest impact.
Academic text (2013) -
Nurse managers and PI staff collaborated to prioritize the projects to be implemented.
Academic text (2013) -
But how do we prioritize play and fun?
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So he told me to prioritize my time, right?
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For instance, it seems to prioritize certain types of crime.
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As you identify some of those values you can then start to prioritize them.
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I am choosing to prioritize my young children this time.
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But until the leadership prioritizes it, it's not going to happen.
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Similarly, the international community did not prioritize rebuilding the justice system or improving the rule of law.
Academic text (2011) -
All new inventions must eventually be ranked and prioritized according to their usefulness.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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4.2
To decide what is most important to do
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To put people or things in order by importance
To treat something as more important than other things
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Prioritized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word prioritize comes from prior, which means 'before' and is the same root as priority. Think of it as making something come 'first', so to prioritize is to put tasks in order by importance or urgency.