"優先指定"，1967年在美國政府行話中出現，顯然在1972年美國總統競選期間流行起來，源自 priority + -ize 的詞根。"目前在語言中感到不自然的一個詞" [OED，1989年]。相關詞彙： Prioritized; prioritizing。
Sen. Pete Dominick (R-Colo.) claims that it took him and his staff almost six years (Dominick is up for election next year) just to learn "governmentalese." He notes words such as "generalizationable" and "prioritize" and other words constructed with liberal use of hyphens: "quasi-pseudo-anti-regionalism" and "multi-duplex-co-establishment." [Don MacLean, "Washington Watch" newspaper column, February, 1967]
科羅拉多州共和黨參議員皮特·多米尼克（Pete Dominick）聲稱，他和他的工作人員花了將近六年的時間（多米尼克明年將參加選舉）才學會"政府用語"。他指出了諸如"generalizationable"和"prioritize"等詞彙，以及使用連字符的其他詞彙："quasi-pseudo-anti-regionalism"和"multi-duplex-co-establishment"。[唐·麥克萊恩（Don MacLean），"華盛頓觀察"報紙專欄，1967年2月]
