put sth before sb
— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
(IMPORTANCE)
to give more attention to one thing than another because you think it is more important:
I'd never put my work before my family.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- format
- kingdom
- precedence
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- stream
- tick sth off
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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(TELL)
to formally tell or explain facts or ideas to a group of people in authority:
We have to put our proposal before the committee.
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Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- annunciation
- awake
- come out
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- hand
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- predicate
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
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