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“Prioritization” or “Prioritisation”

Prioritization is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while prioritisation is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

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Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “prioritization” and 4 prefer “prioritisation”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country prioritization prioritisation Preference
United States 99 1 “prioritization”
United Kingdom 28 72 “prioritisation”
India 83 17 “prioritization”
Philippines 100 0 “prioritization”
Canada 96 4 “prioritization”
Australia 27 73 “prioritisation”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 42 58 “prioritisation”
New Zealand 23 77 “prioritisation”
Jamaica 0 0 Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago 0 0 Not enough data
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“prioritization”

  • …serve to determine the relative prioritization among a company’s varying goals…
  • …enrichment analysis and candidate gene prioritization
  • …member of the committee for prioritization.
  • IVR also enables customer prioritization.
  • …on six priorities, including the prioritization of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…
  • …for use in planning and prioritization of climate change adaptation and…
  • …voiced over the Blueprint | Prioritization cutbacks received coverage in the…
  • Requirement prioritization
  • …have enough money," and therefore, "Prioritization is absolutely essential."
  • Binary prioritization

“prioritisation”

  • Northamptonshire County Council's Transport Prioritisation Framework includes plans for an…
  • …commercial orientation, rather than the prioritisation of artistic merit.
  • England's prioritisation of white-ball cricket was also…
  • …processes of deduction, elaboration or prioritisation.
  • …Therapists, Gadhok had advocated the prioritisation of children’s language services by…
  • ERO identifies research areas for prioritisation and indicates the appropriate action…
  • …substantial untied funds for local prioritisation and local resource allocation to…
  • …has failed, whence emergency system prioritisation firstly sacrifices the steering system.
  • …to improve the process of prioritisation of research capacities, develop international…
  • …a 2001 PhD titled 'Surgical prioritisation and patients : assessment, process…

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