Prioritize

Definition: Prioritize

Prioritize

Verb

1. Assign a priority to.

Crosswords: Prioritize

Specialty definitions using "prioritize": emt-paramedic ♦ M1 ♦ SPO. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

We can prioritize, conceptualize and tenderize. (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

We interface, Flintstone, we conceptualize, tenderize, prioritize. (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Prioritize Organize: The Art of Getting It (reference) Seven Life Principles for Every Woman: Refreshing Ways to Prioritize Your Life (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Employers need to monitor program effectiveness by using appropriate techniques for analysis of group audiometric data. By detecting problem areas, managers can prioritize resource allocations and modify company policies to achieve effectiveness. (references)
Business		Using these two composites, one can prioritize all countries of the world. (references)
		From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Albania compared to other major country markets. (references)
		In a speech to Defense personnel in Northern Norway, Minister Godal admitted that faced with a choice between cutting operating costs or cutting investment levels, he has chosen to prioritize cutting operating costs. (references)
Economic History	Philippines	Those who will be investing in software will likely prioritize the purchase of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions particularly those relating to human resources management and inventory control and management. (references)
	South Africa	The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) was charged to prioritize the top 300 (of over 800) SOE's, to create a publicly accessible SOE database, to set a privatization timetable and, most importantly, to build capacity within the Department. (references)
	Lebanon	Meanwhile, PM Hariri has asked the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) to submit a three-year nationwide development program by August 30, 2001. The program will prioritize those projects (out of a $6.3 billion five-year program that was endorsed by Parliament June 2000) for which immediate financing is available for implementation. (references)
Human Rights	Honduras	Under the new Criminal Procedures Code the purpose of plea-bargaining is expected to reduce the caseload and to prioritize serious crimes for prosecution. (references)
Worker Rights	Brazil	In 2000 labor inspectors began to prioritize inspections in the informal sector to reduce the number of unregistered workers, but they remain unable to enter private homes and farms, where much of the nation's child labor is found. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Prioritize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 70.73% of the time. "Prioritize" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	70.73%	29	64,444
Lexical Verb (base form)	29.27%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	41	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "prioritize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏أعطى الأولوية ل (prefer, preference). (various references)

Chinese		给予优先权. (various references)

German		prioritisieren. (various references)

Indonesian		menomorsatukan, mengutamakan (accentuate, extrude). (various references)

Korean		우� 순위를 매기십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ioritizepray

Russian		располагать в соответствии с приоритетом. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "prioritize": prioritized, prioritizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Prioritize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prioriteze, prioritise, prioritiz, proritize, psiloritis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "prioritize" (pronounced prīô"rutī'z)
5	-r u t ī' z	democratize, securitize.
4	-u t ī' z	alphabetize, deputize, desensitize, digitize, dramatize, hypnotize, privatize, proselytize, sanitize, sensitize, stigmatize, traumatize.
3	-t ī' z	advertise, amortize, neckties.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-i-o-p-r-r-t-z"
	-3 letters: pierrot, preriot, ritzier.
	-4 letters: pitier, porter, potzer, pretor, prizer, protei, report, rioter, ropier.
	-5 letters: prier, prior, prize, repot, repro, retro, riper, roper, toper, torii, trier, tripe, trope.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-i-o-p-r-r-t-z"
	+1 letter: prioritized, prioritizes.
	+5 letters: reprivatization.
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