urgent priority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofurgentandpriority
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urgent
adjective
uk/ˈɜː.dʒənt/us/ˈɝː.dʒənt/
very important and needing ...
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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 ofurgentandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Periodical rest periods for individuals are necessary even onurgentprioritywork, if output is to be maintained at the highest level.
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That should be looked into as a matter ofurgentpriority.
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Our chief education officer estimates that there are some 50 projects that would meriturgentpriorityif sufficient funds were available.
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Many employers have sick pay schemes, and the benefits themselves are so much improved that this is no longer anurgentpriority.
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Is this the mosturgentpriorityof the last 50 years?
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The acquisition of baseline data for freezing soils is clearly anurgentpriority.
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Sound management of enrolments, registers, and even staff registers were becoming anurgentpriority.
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All that improvement could be done in the first year by expenditure of approximately £1·3 billion, and we believe that it is anurgentpriority.
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Faith; and if he will giveurgentpriorityto the construction of the alternative roads which have been under consideration for a considerable time.
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I agree also that the need for those countries to attract private investment and the management skills and technology it brings is anurgentpriority.
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It seeks to make sure that the advisory committee makes salmon tagging anurgentpriorityand considers the proper means of implementing it.
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Fourthly: the issue of economic and institutional reconstruction is anurgentpriority.
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If we are to prevent groundwater pollution, our mosturgentprioritymust be to eliminate sources of pollution.
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Accordingly, it must, as a matter ofurgentpriority, be translated fully into practical reality.
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The mosturgentprioritynow is to stop the violence and avert a humanitarian crisis.
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Theurgentprioritymust be to verify that refugees are free to come out of rural high-lying areas and into the valleys and sheltered settlements.
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It must beurgentpriorityto build new public and private houses to freshen-up and modernise the existing stock.
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I think that that is anurgentpriority.
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Theurgentpriorityis to set up the machinery for growth.
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This large increase in capital sum requirements for the development of the industry emphasises theurgentpriorityneed for a stable long-term policy.
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