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reprioritize

reprioritize verb: to arrange things in a new order of importance; to prioritize again.

Verb

reprioritize (third-person singular simple present reprioritizes, present participle reprioritizing, simple past and past participle reprioritized)

  1. (transitive) To arrange things in a new order of importance; to prioritize again.
    • I feel the year is shot...that I better re-prioritize all those things I've been putting off "until I'm all healed up."1986, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Forms of reprioritize

third-person singular presentreprioritizes
present participlereprioritizing
past participlereprioritized
pastreprioritized
alternative formreprioritise

Origin of reprioritize

From re- + prioritize.

Questions about reprioritize

What does reprioritize mean?
Reprioritize means to arrange things in a new order of importance; to prioritize again.
What part of speech is reprioritize?
Reprioritize is a verb.
What is the past tense of reprioritize?
The past tense of reprioritize is reprioritized.

Words near reprioritize in the dictionary

  1. reprioritised
  2. reprioritises
  3. reprioritising
  4. reprioritization
  5. reprioritizations
  6. reprioritize
  7. reprioritized
  8. reprioritizes
  9. reprioritizing
  10. reprisable
  11. reprisal

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