top priority

collocation in English

meanings of topand priority

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top
adjective[before noun]
uk /tɒp/ us /tɑːp/
at the highest part ...
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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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Examples of top priority

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Thus, the area of measurement was identified as the toppriority for research attention, which is foundational to broader research in the field.
Furthermore, climate change is not a toppriority for many developing countries, given more pertinent concerns about food and water security and poverty alleviation.
Why cater to the interests of "other" groups when basic services should be toppriority?
Thirty-four percent said it was "important, but not the toppriority" while only 23 percent said this issue was not important at all or inappropriate.
Financial restrictions dictate that only the toppriority service improvements are normally funded.
Evidence from polls reveals that while people generally like the idea of exporting freedom, they do not view it as a toppriority.
Building a defense industry became the toppriority of the government.
Future work includes an extension of the methods to develop collision control algorithms with the human safety as the toppriority.
When foot binarity is a toppriority, a word with an odd number of syllables cannot be parsed exhaustively, since that would create non-binary feet.
Labour market participation of unemployed people was given toppriority, and various means were applied.
Even their reading competence is not at all satisfactory, though reading is given toppriority.
If so, studying life events early in the course of disorder should be a toppriority.
As expected from the economic problems facing the country, economic development was given a toppriority over democratization in a greater proportion.
In 1990 this question was a toppriority for the managers.
First, it brought previously confidential missions into the public domain as toppriority matters for the regime.
Given the dislocations of the summer of 1940, however, their toppriority had to be economic survival.
Given the prevalence, stability, and negative outcomes associated with children's aggressive behavior, finding effective interventions has been a toppriority.
In accordance with monetarist prescriptions, governments began to concentrate on fighting inflation as a toppriority to ensure sustained economic growth and lower unemployment.
While habitat preservation must remain the toppriority, biologists and conservationists should not neglect to consider the insidious threat of exotic species.
If the government makes price stability a toppriority, central bank independence is superfluous.
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