Antedating of "Prioritize"

[Fred Shapiro]

prioritize (OED 1973)

1961 _Wash. Post_ 5 Mar. E2 (ProQuest)  But in all fairness, the District
could do a better job of presenting its program.  It often fails to
"prioritize" its requests, to use a silly word that just came to my
attention the other day as the latest contribution to government jargon.

Fred Shapiro


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