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prioritising

prioritising is the present participle and gerund of prioritise.

Meaning of prioritise

Verb

prioritise (third-person singular simple present prioritises, present participle prioritising, simple past and past participle prioritised)

  1. UK standard spelling of prioritize.
    • Work is being prioritised on the upper concourse at Whitechapel to allow the station's Whitechapel Road entrance to reopen in spring of next year, replacing the temporary entrance in providing access to the Underground and Overground lines.2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways
    Antonyms:
    deprioritise

Questions about prioritising

What is prioritising the present participle and gerund of?
Prioritising is the present participle and gerund of prioritise.

Words near prioritising in the dictionary

  1. prioritise
  2. prioritised
  3. prioritiser
  4. prioritisers
  5. prioritises
  6. prioritising
  7. prioritizable
  8. prioritization
  9. prioritizations
  10. prioritize
  11. prioritized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prioritising (page history and authors); prioritise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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