Meaning & use

prioritize

verb·Academic

To arrange tasks or items in order of importance and deal with the most important ones first.

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Managers must prioritize urgent client requests over routine paperwork whenever the two conflict.

She prioritized her studies over social events during the final week before exams.

A note on using this word

Prioritize is widely used in business and productivity contexts; some style guides once objected to it as jargon, but it is now standard.

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