prioritise
Verb: 1. To arrange or deal with in order of importance: To decide that certain tasks, goals, or issues are more important than others and should be dealt with first. 2. To give priority or precedence to something: To treat something as being more urgent or significant than other things.
The verb prioritise (also spelled prioritize) is used to describe the act of ranking items based on their relative importance. It is commonly used in professional, academic, and personal contexts when discussing time management, resource allocation, or decision-making. - It is often followed by a direct object (what is being prioritized). - It can be used with adverbs like carefully, effectively, or constantly. - It can be used in the passive voice (e.g., "This task is prioritised").
Basic Usage:
- You need to prioritise your tasks for the week.
- The government must prioritise healthcare funding.
- I always prioritise family over work.
With Adverbs:
- Managers must carefully prioritise their team's projects.
- We are constantly prioritising new feature requests.
In Passive Voice:
- Safety was prioritised above all else in the design.
- Which items on the list are being prioritised?
"to prioritise something over something else": To treat one thing as more important than another.
- We had to prioritise stability over new features in this update.
Reflexive/Intransitive Use: Sometimes used without a direct object, implying the general activity of setting priorities.
- With so many deadlines, learning to prioritise is an essential skill.
- Priority (n): The condition of being more important.
- This project is our top priority.
- Prioritisation/Prioritization (n): The act or process of prioritizing.
- Effective prioritisation is key to productivity.
- Reprioritise (v): To prioritize again or differently.
- We need to reprioritise our goals for the next quarter.
- Rank: To assign a specific position in a scale of importance.
- Prefer: To like or want one thing more than another (less formal).
- Put first: To treat as the most important (idiomatic).
- Prioritise among/between: To choose the most important from within a group.
- It's difficult to prioritise among so many good ideas.
- "First things first": An idiom meaning the most important tasks should be done before anything else; it relates to the concept of prioritisation.
- We have a lot to discuss, but first things first: let's look at the budget.
- assign a priority to
- we have too many things to do and must prioritize