prioritise

Meanings

verbprioritise (third-person singular simple present prioritises, present participle prioritising, simple past and past participle prioritised)

present singular third person prioritises · participle present prioritising · participle past prioritised · past prioritised

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of prioritize.
The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
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Work is being prioritised on the upper concourse at Whitechapel to allow the station's Whitechapel Road entrance to reopen in spring of next year, replacing the temporary entrance in providing access to the Underground and Overground lines.
2019 October 28, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways
When facts have become debatable, she said, and when “the world’s largest distributor of news prioritises the spread of lies laced with anger and hate – then journalism becomes activism … It’s about the facts, right?” She told Norwegian TV the reward gave her and Rappler “tremendous energy to continue the fight”.
2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian
In a video message, Zuckerberg vowed to prioritise free speech after the return of Donald Trump to the White House and said that, starting in the US, he would “get rid of factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X”.
2025 January 7, Robert Booth, “Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content”, in The Guardian
Antonyms: deprioritise