deprioritising

Pushing down list

Deprioritising is moving something lower on a list of priorities—treating it as less important or urgent than before.

British spelling of deprioritizing.

The company is deprioritising expansion plans to focus on profitability.

We've been deprioritising sleep, and it's catching up with us.

demotion

downgrading

Reducing rank or status

backburner · sidelining · shelving · deemphasizing · downscaling · lowering · reduction · decrease · diminution · contraction

neglect

overlooking

Failing to see or consider

omission · inattention · negligence · abandonment · forgetting · slighting · disuse · dismissing · bypassing · marginalizing

reassessment

reevaluation

Judging something anew

rethinking · reordering · reranking · reprioritization · review · recalibrating · reassigning · readjusting · reshuffling · rebalancing

reallocation

refocusing

Directing attention anew

shifting · trade-off · diverting · redistribution · pivoting · redeployment · optimization · streamlining · rationalization

Opposites
importance ranking

deprioritisingprioritising

Ordering by importance

prioritizing · elevating · fast-tracking · promoting · foregrounding

urgency and scheduling

deprioritisingexpediting

Making progress faster

fast-tracking · accelerating · advancing · bringing forward · moving up

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G