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prioritize

[prahy-awr-i-tahyz, -or-]

Example Sentences

verb (used with object)

to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.

to give a high priority to.

verb (used without object)

to organize or deal with something according to its priority.

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Also, especially British, pri·or·i·tise.

Origin:
1965–70; priorit(y) + -ize

Related forms

pri·or·i·ti·za·tion, noun

re·pri·or·i·ti·za·tion, noun

re·pri·or·i·tize, verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz·ing.

Usage note
See -ize.

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Example Sentences

We fill a unique need by helping prioritize and efficiently manage repairs that increase home values.

Then you should prioritize those conditions that you want to negotiate.

When the government owns the printing press, it probably is not going to prioritize the publication of dissenting views.

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We fill a unique need by helping prioritize and efficiently manage repairs that increase home values.

Then you should prioritize those conditions that you want to negotiate.

When the government owns the printing press, it probably is not going to prioritize the publication of dissenting views.

It would not let you prioritize or create the links between events that give them meaning.

Governments want to know where the messes are so they can prioritize cleanups.

If there was ever a time to prioritize this type of response to hunger, it is now.

Ability to prioritize work responsibilities, adapt to changing duties, and to work independently.

If not, you'd better start to prioritize the worth of lives going from one to six billion.

And to make a simple suggestion concerning a path for action: prioritize measures with collateral benefits.

Authorities can prioritize use of the network for emergency personnel.

Policies that prioritize using genetically modified crops undermine the development of these alternatives.

Even folks who prioritize research over service get panned as unprofessional.

In this case, the government must choose one solution and prioritize one or the other.

Prioritize projects based on their contribution to decentralization, deconcentration, and the participation of women.

And the big challenge is getting health care decision makers to prioritize and pay for it.

We calculate fixed expenses and evaluate and prioritize new projects and existing budget lines that may turn out to be optional.

Prioritize them, consider how to act on them and discuss them within your company.

From that data, draw accurate mortality maps, and use those maps to prioritize getting people what they need.

Another approach to getting more from existing resources is to better prioritize their use based on risk.

Maybe it's time to prioritize what skill sets the taxpayers are willing to fund.

Prioritize the rest and delegate the low-level jobs.

There is far too much vague stuff in there to get to each year, so the gov't and the community get together and prioritize.

Developed countries should also prioritize trade facilitation reforms in their bilateral aid programs.

As amazing as it seems that a sports team would not prioritize paying its players, it happens.

Practice effective time management skills and prioritize your contacts.

Plants are rated to help prioritize both control and prevention efforts.

It is meant to help prioritize scientific work and for policymaking.

It wasn't easy managing to prioritize my education in a family where there wasn't the precedent or the money to support.

And above all else ensure your government prioritize a balanced budget.

In fact there was a meeting for scientists that work on bees to prioritize research to figure out what was going.

The only guarantee is that if you invest in it and prioritize resources well enough, eventually it will change everything".

Patients learn to prioritize their responsibilities and drop some of the less important tasks or delegate them to others.

He says that he would prioritize math and science teachers.

The plans also urge the government to prioritize education and science.

Try to prioritize your sleep and invest in one of those ambient noise machines.

Prioritize clear goals and devise a strategy to accomplish them.

Also if you are single you should prioritize social time in certain ways.

Would negotiate pay performance programs with teachers, prioritize recruitment and offer professional development.

Most families with kids prioritize spending on them.

How to prioritize your workload and transform office space from a disaster zone to a disciplined environment.

And it seems to have gotten lost as doctors get involved in medical systems that prioritize speed and technology.

Prioritize population security over short-duration disruption operations.

Every society needs to make a choice about how to prioritize consumer safety.

It will make it possible, for example, for managers of large networks to program their network to prioritize certain types of.

The administration could also decide how to prioritize payments.

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World English Dictionary

prioritize or prioritise (praɪˈɒrɪˌtaɪz)

—vb
1.	to arrange (items to be attended to) in order of their relative importance
2.	to give priority to or establish as a priority

prioritise or prioritise

—vb

prioriti'zation or prioritise

—n

prioriti'sation or prioritise

—n

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