deprioritize
Reduce the importance or urgency of something
Examples
In a meeting
“Let's deprioritize the website redesign until after the product launch.”
Over coffee
“I've decided to deprioritize dating and focus on my career.”
Why this word
downgrade
Deprioritize specifically refers to ranking in importance, downgrade is broader about reducing status
postpone
Deprioritize means lowering in priority order, postpone just delays timing
defer
Deprioritize changes relative importance, defer focuses on delaying action
Usage tip
Use when consciously deciding something is less important than other tasks
Etymology
Latin 'de' (down) + 'prior' (former, more important)
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