Triage

Quick meaning: Triage is a noun meaning Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.

Meaning

Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.

More Meanings

1. (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
2. That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
3. (rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.
4. (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
5. (chiefly medicine) To subject to triage; to prioritize.

Example Sentences

[Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.

I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.

For three months I was trained to chat with people who might be thinking of suicide. I learned how to triage them, and what words must be avoided at all costs.

With the ambulance service the calls are triaged, so your response time can be anything from six minutes for a life-threatening call to an hour and a half for a broken limb.

Word Forms

• triages
• triaging
• triaged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sortation, sort, sorting, categorize, classify, classification.

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