high priority
Needs immediate attention
High priority describes something that demands attention before other matters.
Tasks, issues, or items marked high priority should be addressed first or given extra resources: This bug is high priority—fix it before the release.
The phrase appears constantly in workplace communication, often as a way to signal urgency or importance: I'm flagging this as high priority.
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- mission criticalEssential to core operations
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- crucialOf supreme importance
top · important · deadline · rush · drop everything · emergency · code red · immediate · all hands on deck · escalate · first · paramount · vital · triage · burning · fast track · time-sensitive · do or die
- ranking systemstop secret, secret, confidential, unclassified, restricted
- task propertiesstatus, assigned, complete, pending, open
- rankingsrankings, first, college rankings, second, third
- priorityurgent, essential, critical, crucial, precedence
- prioritizationranking, ordering, urgency, urgent, triaging
- email filteringspam filter, junk folder, whitelist, blacklist, spam detection
high prioritylow priority
Not requiring immediate attention
unimportant · trivial · low on the totem pole · negligible · peripheral
high prioritydeferrable
Capable of being delayed
non-urgent · routine · optional · non-essential · can wait
high prioritydeferrable
Capable of being delayed
can wait · non-urgent · whenever · no rush · postponable
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