prioritize
verb/pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/UK/pɹaɪˈoɹ.ə.taɪz/CA/pɹɑeˈɔɹ.ə.tɑez/
Etymology
From priority + -ize. First attested in 1967 as U.S. government jargon, becoming more widespread through the 1970s and ’80s, but still denounced as officialese by purists into the 1990s.
Definitions
To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things.
- When I don't have time to buy everything at the store, I prioritize fresh fruit and vegetables over foods like rice or noodles.
- In 2005 Houston Methodist Hospital (HMH) established a Sepsis Care Management Performance Improvement (CMPI) committee and prioritized sepsis detection and management in its ICUs, using the approaches of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.
To arrange or list a group of things in order of priority or importance.
To rank something as having high priority.
The neighborhood
- antonymmarginalize
- antonymdisfocus
- neighborprioritization
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for prioritize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA