immediate priority

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandpriority

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immediate
adjective
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/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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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 ofimmediateandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Myimmediatepriorityis local authority spending, not structure.
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Theimmediatepriorityremains to secure a durable and fully respected ceasefire and to allow for the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid.
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Theimmediatepriorityis to secure a ceasefire as a prelude to a negotiated settlement.
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Theimmediatepriorityareas are de-mining and mines awareness education, and the provision of emergency relief (shelter, food, medicine, emergency rehabilitation of infrastructure).
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Theimmediatepriorityis to ensure that the needs of the survivors for food, shelter and medical assistance are met.
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Following the disturbance, theimmediateprioritywas to reassert control and reimpose good order at the prison.
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Theimmediatepriorityfor health authorites is to ensure that existing equipment is correctly and safely maintained.
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Theimmediatepriorityfor health authorities must be to ensure that the existing equipment is correctly and safely maintained.
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Theimmediatepriorityis humanitarian, but beyond that there is a delicate and tangled political mess to sort out.
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That means being tough on inflation and givingimmediatepriorityto seeing how public expenditure can be made more effective.
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We do not even know how the so-calledimmediateprioritycommitments would be paid for.
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Ourimmediatepriorityis to provide food and shelter for refugees over this winter.
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Ourimmediateprioritymust be the reestablishment of the administration and the rehabilitation of the islands for the existing population.
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Its removal is not ourimmediatepriority, although we are keeping the matter under review.
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While ourimmediatepriorityis to provide humanitarian assistance, the long-term answer is peace.
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Ourimmediatepriorityis to ensure that access to urgent medical assistance is widely available.
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Theimmediatepriorityis to try to provide support and strengthening for the current operation to overcome the crisis.
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We accept that we have animmediatepriorityto meet, which is in gross contrast to our predecessors.
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Here is ourimmediatepriority: to combine the economic integration of free trade with the political decentralisation of self-government.
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That seems to me to be theimmediatepriority.
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