MEANING
To give something a lower place in the order of importance or action.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- deprioritize a project
- deprioritize nonessential work
On the page
The team deprioritized cosmetic changes until the fault was fixed.
Nearby words
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- deprioritize
- Past tense
- deprioritized
- Past participle
- deprioritized
- Present participle
- deprioritizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deprioritize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deprioritizing
- Present perfect
- have/has deprioritized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deprioritizing
- Past
- deprioritized
- Past continuous
- was/were deprioritizing
- Past perfect
- had deprioritized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deprioritizing
- Future
- will deprioritize
- Future continuous
- will be deprioritizing
- Future perfect
- will have deprioritized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deprioritizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: deprioritize; deprioritizes; deprioritized; deprioritized; deprioritizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: deprioritizes.
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