MEANING
To rank tasks or concerns and give greater attention to the more important ones.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- prioritize needs
- prioritize safety
On the page
The plan prioritizes maintenance over expansion.
Word forms
- Base
- prioritize
- Past tense
- prioritized
- Past participle
- prioritized
- Present participle
- prioritizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- prioritize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are prioritizing
- Present perfect
- have/has prioritized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been prioritizing
- Past
- prioritized
- Past continuous
- was/were prioritizing
- Past perfect
- had prioritized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been prioritizing
- Future
- will prioritize
- Future continuous
- will be prioritizing
- Future perfect
- will have prioritized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been prioritizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: prioritize; prioritizes; prioritized; prioritized; prioritizing 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: prioritizes.
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