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  1. noun A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.
  2. noun A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.
  3. noun A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority: "For millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry” (Jill Smolowe).
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  • Doc Waitson here, he'll take on what he calls the triage, sortin' out the people who need what they can get from one of our boat trips from those that don't Cheers and whistles from the volunteers Pop had coerced into back room paperwork. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 02 - February 1996
  • But knowing the political cycle, the administration will attempt rapid triage -- let healthy banks fend for themselves, close failing ones, and demand equity in bailed out banks and automakers. —  The American Prospect Articles
  • Physician triage was associated with a decrease in LWBS rates, and time spent on ambulance diversion. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • "Many of these existing venture capital funds are doing triage, and they're literally deciding which companies are going to die now, which companies might get a little more money and which companies are going to get a lot more money," Jacobs said. —  News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
  • Telephone triage is an important piece of any medical practice, including dermatology. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. French, from trier, to sort, from Old French.

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  1. from French triage, from trier, sort out, try: see try.
 

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