top priority
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftopandpriority
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top
adjective[before noun]
uk/tɒp/us/tɑːp/
at the highest part ...
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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 oftopandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, the area of measurement was identified as thetoppriorityfor research attention, which is foundational to broader research in the field.
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Furthermore, climate change is not atoppriorityfor many developing countries, given more pertinent concerns about food and water security and poverty alleviation.
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Why cater to the interests of "other" groups when basic services should betoppriority?
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Thirty-four percent said it was "important, but not thetoppriority" while only 23 percent said this issue was not important at all or inappropriate.
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Financial restrictions dictate that only thetoppriorityservice improvements are normally funded.
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Evidence from polls reveals that while people generally like the idea of exporting freedom, they do not view it as atoppriority.
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Building a defense industry became thetoppriorityof the government.
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Future work includes an extension of the methods to develop collision control algorithms with the human safety as thetoppriority.
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When foot binarity is atoppriority, a word with an odd number of syllables cannot be parsed exhaustively, since that would create non-binary feet.
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Labour market participation of unemployed people was giventoppriority, and various means were applied.
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Even their reading competence is not at all satisfactory, though reading is giventoppriority.
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If so, studying life events early in the course of disorder should be atoppriority.
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As expected from the economic problems facing the country, economic development was given atoppriorityover democratization in a greater proportion.
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In 1990 this question was atoppriorityfor the managers.
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First, it brought previously confidential missions into the public domain astopprioritymatters for the regime.
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Given the dislocations of the summer of 1940, however, theirtoppriorityhad to be economic survival.
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Given the prevalence, stability, and negative outcomes associated with children's aggressive behavior, finding effective interventions has been atoppriority.
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In accordance with monetarist prescriptions, governments began to concentrate on fighting inflation as atoppriorityto ensure sustained economic growth and lower unemployment.
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While habitat preservation must remain thetoppriority, biologists and conservationists should not neglect to consider the insidious threat of exotic species.
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If the government makes price stability atoppriority, central bank independence is superfluous.
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