give priority to vs. put priorities on

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hello everyone

I’d like to ask if these two phrases have the same meaning or not:

  1. We should give priority to this issue. (in a conversation about which thing is more important, which thing should be done first)

  2. We should put priorities on this ussue.

Do both sentence have the same meaning?

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For # 2, you should use “put priority on”. #1 like you said, gives the sense of sorting in the order of importance. #2 vaguely suggests that you focus on this issue (therefore dropping or ignoring others). But then that’s quite a stretch as these two essentially have the same meaning, imho.

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Thank you very much, Diverhank.