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means The process of ranking tasks or goals by importance so you know what to tackle first and what can wait (or quietly rot).

from From 'priority,' which traces back to Latin 'prior' meaning 'former' or 'earlier' — the one that comes before. For centuries 'priority' stayed stubbornly singular: there could only be one first thing. The modern habit of having competing 'priorities,' plural, is a 20th-century development that grammarians grumbled about even as everyone kept doing it. 'Prioritization' itself is a 20th-century formation tacked onto that drift, bureaucratic in its bones — built for memos, meetings, and the eternal ranking of fires by how loudly they're burning.