prioritization

English

Alternative forms

• prioritisation

Etymology

Etymology tree

English prioritize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English prioritization

From prioritize + -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prʌɪˌɒrətʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

prioritization (countable and uncountable, plural prioritizations)

1. The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.
   • 2025 May 17, Emily Hotez, Rebecca K. Tsevat, Sha Tao, Jenny Mai Phan, Philip Smith, Tammy Shen, Jonas Ventimiglia, Liliana Rivera, Hailey Kissner, Lisa A. Croen, Lindsay Shea, “Autism, Obesity, and PTSD Among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Analysis of National Medicaid Claims Data”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders‎^[1], →DOI, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:

     Many autistic individuals without a PTSD diagnosis may actually meet criteria for PTSD but have not received an official diagnosis, potentially due to stronger prioritization of the primary diagnosis of autism.

Derived terms

• deprioritization
• reprioritization

Related terms

• prioritize

Translations

process of assigning priorities to things or tasks

• Catalan: priorització f
• Czech: priorizace f, prioritizace (cs) f
• Finnish: priorisointi (fi)
• French: priorisation (fr) f
• Galician: priorización (gl) f
• German: Priorisierung (de) f
• Italian: priorizzazione f
• Portuguese: priorização (pt) f, prioritização f
• Russian: приоритиза́ция (ru) f (prioritizácija)
• Spanish: priorización f