Prioritize vs Important - What's the difference?
prioritize | important |
As a verb prioritize is (intransitive) to arrange or list a group of things in order of priority or importance. As an adjective important is important.
prioritize English
Alternative forms
* prioritise (British)
Verb
(prioritiz)
(intransitive) to arrange or list a group of things in order of priority or importance
to rank something as having high priority
Related terms
* first things first
* prioritization
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important English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Having relevant and crucial value.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 citation
, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
*1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
*:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm
, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
Synonyms
* (l)
* See also
Antonyms
* unimportant
* negligible
Related terms
* import
* importance
Derived terms
* importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIP
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