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Prioritization vs Priority - What's the difference?

prioritization | priority | Derived terms |

Priority is a derived term of prioritization.



As nouns the difference between prioritization and priority

is that prioritization is the process of assigning priorities to things or tasks while priority is an item's relative importance.

prioritization

English

Alternative forms

*prioritisation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.

    • Related terms

    *prioritize

    priority

    English

    (wikipedia priority)

    Noun

    (priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority