PRIORITIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prioritize mean? 

• PRIORITIZE (verb)
  The verb PRIORITIZE has 1 sense:

1. assign a priority to

  Familiarity information: PRIORITIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIORITIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prioritize    ... he / she / it prioritizes   
Past simple: prioritized   
Past participle: prioritized   
-ing form: prioritizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assign a priority to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

prioritise; prioritize

Context example:

we have too many things to do and must prioritize

Hypernyms (to "prioritize" is one way to...):

grade; order; place; range; rank; rate (assign a rank or rating to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

priority (preceding in time)

priority (status established in order of importance or urgency)

 Context examples 

Don’t feel that because management seems to prioritize cost over vision right now that you can’t get ahead—you can.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The challenge is prioritizing the right ones when there are thousands of potential options.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

It is used to help prioritize allocation of liver allografts for transplantation and replaces the Child-Pugh score.

(Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The Advanced Diabetes Management Practitioner has an advanced degree and is able to (1) perform complete and/or focused assessments, (2) recognize and prioritize complex data in order to identify needs of patients with diabetes across the life span, and (3) provide therapeutic problem-solving, counseling, and regimen adjustments.

(Diabetes Management Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

This exercise will help set the NCI's research agenda in breast cancer by identifying and prioritizing those scientific opportunities that are most likely to expand our knowledge base and that will ultimately reduce the burden of this cancer.

(Breast Cancer Progress Review Group, NCI Thesaurus)

In that case, you would want to prioritize that payment.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)