Put something before someone meaning
Put something before someone is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to treat one thing as more important than another.
- Past simple
- put something before someone
- Past participle
- put something before someone
- -ing form
- putting something before someone
What put something before someone means
give greater priorityB2
To treat one thing as more important than another
The policy puts patient safety before cost.
1 more meaning of put something before someone is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With put: put on, put up, put off, put back, put away, put down, put out, put together, put in, put across.
With before: come before.
Common questions
What does put something before someone mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to treat one thing as more important than another. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of put something before someone?
Put something before someone, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
