low priority
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflowandpriority
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low
adjective
uk/ləʊ/us/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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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 oflowandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflow priority
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This was reinforced by thelowprioritygiven to public health work at all levels within the organization and by primary care team colleagues.
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However, business and strategic planning was often "perceived to be a futile exercise" which "can often take alowpriorityalongside the clinical workload".
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Even those local authorities noted for good practice in the employment of older workers gave age alowpriority.
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Enforcing local copyright was alowpriorityfor a government struggling to maintain basic law and order.
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Throughout the world, ageism has been given alowpriorityby legislators and regulators.
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According to normal distribution protocol, such a person would have a verylowpriorityfor receiving a kidney.
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This appears to be largely due to thelowpriorityassigned to contraceptive markets by the large importer-distributors.
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Gaining unilateral control over the workplace was, however, alowpriority.
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If this is not the case, and surrogate outcomes are used as the endpoint of the clinical study, economic analysis should havelowpriority.
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Writing is given a relativelylowpriorityin the syllabus and tends to be confined to sentence-level translation only.
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Up to that point they have equal entitlement to healthcare; beyond the fair innings they are given verylowpriority.
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In contrast, most of the workingclass women explained that low income was a key factor in giving alowpriorityto their appearance.
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Assisted reproduction is, for example, given relativelylowpriorityin the provision of healthcare services.
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Community-based mental health programs are diverse and traditionally have hadlowpriorityin mental health policy-making.
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Professionals may give dementialowpriorityin allocating practice time for research projects, and strategies to address this problem are needed.
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For instance, with wi < 0, agents with alowprioritywould perceive a low payoff as insufficient.
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A quarter of practices felt that research was perceived aslowpriority.
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