prioritize

Language: en

🇺🇸 /praɪˈɔrəˌtaɪz/

📖 Definitions

  1. verb
    To arrange or deal with items, tasks, or matters in order of their relative importance or urgency.; To give priority to; to treat something as more important than other things.; To assign a level of priority to something, especially in computing or project management contexts.

🔗 Details

Word forms

3rd sing.: prioritizes Past: prioritized Past part.: prioritized Pres part.: prioritizing

Collocations

prioritize tasksprioritize spendingprioritize healthprioritize needsprioritize workprioritize safety

Derivatives

priorityprioritizationprioritizerpriorpriorly

Synonyms

rankorderorganizearrangesortsequence

Antonyms

deprioritizeneglectdisregard

Commonly confused

prioritise
EN: 'Prioritise' is the British English spelling; 'prioritize' is American English. Both are correct in their respective varieties.
priority
EN: 'Priority' is the noun form (the thing that comes first); 'prioritize' is the verb (the act of arranging by importance).

Spelling tips

EN: Remember the 'i' before the 't': 'prior-i-tize', not 'prioratize'. British English uses 'prioritise' with an 's'.

💬 Examples

  1. You need to prioritize your tasks so that the most critical ones are completed first.

  2. The government decided to prioritize education funding over military spending.

  3. The operating system prioritizes processes based on their resource requirements.