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Prioritise (verb) means a UK standard spelling of prioritize.

verb

A UK 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." — Nigel Harris, Comment: Unhappy start to 2022 (2022)

"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." — Dan Harvey, Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on (2019)

"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”." — Robert Booth, Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content (2025)

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