budgetary priorities
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbudgetaryandpriority
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budgetary
adjective
uk/ˈbʌdʒ.ɪ.tər.i/us/ˈbʌdʒ.ə.ter.i/
related to the amount of money that is available ...
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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 ofbudgetaryandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The price crisis and the food insecurity we are dealing with for the first time in more than thirty years needs to be part of our budgetary priorities.
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Furthermore, because parkways always seem to rank low in budgetary priorities, it will likely take several decades to complete the entire parkway.
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Wikipedia
Forestry was not deemed a staffing orbudgetarypriorityby the central colonial administration.
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The report tells us that the same applies in relation to our intelligence agencies, so that, too, is abudgetarypriority.
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We must therefore ensure that our political priorities can also be translated into budgetary priorities.
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The latter subject is, moreover, one of the budgetary priorities for next year as well.
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This must also be reflected in the budgetary priorities.
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I feel that before us are two sound documents which identify precisely what the budgetary priorities should be for the coming financial year.
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It is simply a matter of how people spend their money and of internal budgetary priorities.
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The mayor's freedom to decide budgetary priorities does not mean running risks with standards of service.
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The number of ship sets to be purchased takes into account such considerations as the threat assessment, budgetary priorities and platform availability.
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It is a matter which should be borne in mind in our planning and budgetary priorities.
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In times like these it is no easy task to set budgetary priorities.
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Finally, my third point concerns the prevention of climate change, which is one of the budgetary priorities for 2009.
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It is not just that our budgetary priorities are wrong, the system is also wrong.
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A health authority retains, of course, the responsibility for ordering its own budgetary priorities.
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I think it much more likely that the assembly would want to take its own soundings on public feelings on budgetary priorities long before it reaches the mayor's draft budget.
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