deprioritizing
Moving down list
Deprioritizing means moving something down the list of importance or urgency.
What gets deprioritized doesn't disappear—it just gets attended to later, if at all: We're deprioritizing the website redesign until Q3.
The word appears frequently in business and project management contexts, often as a diplomatic way of saying something won't happen soon.
Postponing or yielding respectfully
- delayingCausing later occurrence
- tablingDeferring formal discussion
- shelvingHorizontal storage surfaces
- putting offChoosing to delay
holding off · suspending · rescheduling · pushing back · stalling · procrastinating · deferral · postponing
Reducing rank or status
- de-emphasisReduction in importance
- loweringMoving something downward
- relegatingAssigning to lower standing
- sideliningRemoving from participation
backburnering · demoting · subordinating · minimizing · devaluing · downscaling · reducing · diminishing
Failing to see or consider
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- disregardingDeliberately not considering
- sideliningRemoving from participation
- neglectingFailing to attend to
dismissing · undervaluing · slighting · passing over · brushing aside · setting aside · discounting · underestimating
Judging again with fresh eyes
- reconsideringEvaluating something again
- reorderingChanging the arrangement
- reprioritizingReassigning relative importance
- rerankingAdjusting sequence order
reshuffling · rebalancing · reallocating · triaging · reassigning · rethinking · reviewing · adjusting
deferring
Postponing or yielding respectfully
- delayingCausing later occurrence
- tablingDeferring formal discussion
- shelvingHorizontal storage surfaces
putting off · holding off · suspending · rescheduling · pushing back · stalling · procrastinating · deferral · postponing · pausing
downgrading
Reducing rank or status
- de-emphasisReduction in importance
- loweringMoving something downward
- relegatingAssigning to lower standing
sidelining · backburnering · demoting · subordinating · minimizing · devaluing · downscaling · reducing · diminishing · marginalizing
overlooking
Failing to see or consider
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- disregardingDeliberately not considering
- sideliningRemoving from participation
neglecting · dismissing · undervaluing · slighting · passing over · brushing aside · setting aside · discounting · underestimating · inattention
reevaluating
Judging again with fresh eyes
- reconsideringEvaluating something again
- reorderingChanging the arrangement
- reprioritizingReassigning relative importance
reranking · reshuffling · rebalancing · reallocating · triaging · reassigning · rethinking · reviewing · adjusting · recalibrating
- postponingdeferring, delaying, postponing, putting off, rescheduling
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- scheduling actionsbooking, reserving, rescheduling, canceling, confirming
deprioritizingprioritizing
Ordering by importance
reprioritizing · foregrounding · fast-tracking · promoting · elevating
deprioritizingescalating
Increasing by degrees
expediting · rushing · accelerating · pushing forward · flagging
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