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prioritized

prioritized is the simple past and past participle of prioritize.

Meaning of prioritize

Verb

prioritize (third-person singular simple present prioritizes, present participle prioritizing, simple past and past participle prioritized)

  1. (transitive) To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things.
    • When I don't have time to buy everything at the store, I prioritize fresh fruit and vegetables over foods like rice or noodles.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To arrange or list a group of things in order of priority or importance.
  3. (transitive) To rank something as having high priority.

Adjective

prioritized (comparative more prioritized, superlative most prioritized)

  1. with priority, having priority
    Synonyms:
    priority

Synonyms of prioritized

Forms of prioritized

comparativemore prioritized
superlativemost prioritized

Words formed from prioritized

Questions about prioritized

What does prioritized mean?
Prioritized means with priority, having priority.
What is prioritized the simple past and past participle of?
Prioritized is the simple past and past participle of prioritize.
What part of speech is prioritized?
Prioritized is an adjective.

Words near prioritized in the dictionary

  1. prioritising
  2. prioritizable
  3. prioritization
  4. prioritizations
  5. prioritize
  6. prioritized
  7. prioritizer
  8. prioritizers
  9. prioritizes
  10. prioritizing
  11. priority

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prioritized (page history and authors); prioritize (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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