high priority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhighandpriority
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high
adjective
uk/haɪ/us/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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priority
noun[C or U]
uk/praɪˈɒr.ə.ti/us/praɪˈɔːr.ə.t̬i/
something that is very important and must be dealt with before ...
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(Definition ofhighandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An inventory of such institutions is ahighpriority.
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This had the desired effect in that all deuteranopes tested as strong, which was a veryhighpriorityin making this a good test.
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Highpriorityis given to maternal and child health care, and there are several programs for prevention of disease during pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood.
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As regards the maps, which ought to be the main focus of an atlas, accuracy has not been ahighpriority.
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We restrict attention to a deterministic environment; fully incorporating stochastic elements into our calculation framework remains ahighpriorityfor future work.
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Infrastructure is perceived as an essential ingredient for growth and social well-being, and remains ahighpriorityfor most governments around the world.
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In many cases even the keeping of timesheets was not regarded as ahighpriority.
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Both central banks place ahighpriorityon price stability.
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This can disadvantage disciplines that do not follow the norm in a university where ahighpriorityis given to research.
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Longitudinal evaluation of these interactions will therefore be ahighpriorityas we follow the sample into late adolescence.
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In countries where worker benefits claims are treated withhighpriority, they will be paid.
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The conduct of high-quality longitudinal studies is ahighpriority.
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European governments do not always give preventive activities ahighpriority.
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They are thus likely to givehighpriorityto the short-term interests of narrow constituencies, at the expense of longer-term social welfare.
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However, some prominent books about the nineteenth century give the impression that the matter was not ahighprioritythere either.
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This is a reason to give them veryhighpriority.
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To ensure quality research, some training of non-social scientists in social science research methodology is indispensable and ofhighpriority.
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