prioritise
B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine verb
To arrange tasks or patients in order of urgency or importance.
At handover we prioritise the sickest patients so the incoming team knows where to start.
Business verb
To arrange tasks or objectives in order of importance and address them accordingly.
With limited engineers, we prioritised the defects that affected paying customers.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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