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triage
- /ˈtɹiː.ɑːʒ/ UK
- /ˈtɹi.ɑʒ/ US
- /tɹiˈɑʒ/ US
Rhymes with -ɑːʒ
noun triages
- Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated. Let us think of triage, and remember the word's origins. It began with French wool growers in the eighteenth century, but its most illuminating use comes from eighteenth century coffee bean growers, who sorted their beans into best, middling, and broken. The last category came to be known as 'triage
- 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).
- A facility within a hospital that screens walk-in patients and determines which department or clinic to send them to. (See also triage center.) I knew where most of the medical supplies were kept. I went to triage. The room was chaos.
- The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
- A marshalling yard, classification yard. Similarly, any group of sidings is known to army railway personnel as a "triage". This word is derived from the French verb trier, which means literally "to sort," and hence "triage" has become the common army expression for a marshalling yard.
verb triages · triaging · triaged
- To subject to triage; to prioritize. Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged" as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV pr
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noun assessment or sorting according to quality
| Español | sorteo, selección |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | トリアージ toriāji |
| Português | triagem, seleção |
| Deutsch | Auswahl, Selektierung, Einschätzung, Sichtung |
| Italiano | sorteggio, assegnazione, scelta |
| Русский | сортиро́вка sortiróvka, триа́ж triáž |
noun the process of sorting patients
| Español | triaje, triage (barbarism) |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | トリアージ toriāji |
| 中文 | 分診 /分诊 fēnzhěn |
| Português | triagem |
| Français | triage médical |
| Deutsch | Triage, Ersteinschätzung, Sichtung |
| Italiano | triage |
| Ελληνικά | τριάζ triáz, διαλογή dialogí |
| Русский | устано́вка очерёдности ustanóvka očerjódnosti, триа́ж triáž |
verb to prioritize
| Español | seleccionar |
|---|---|
| Português | triar |
| Français | trier |
| Deutsch | auswählen, bewerten, sichten |
| Русский | отбрако́вывать otbrakóvyvatʹ |
Talk about this word "triage." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/triage. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. triage. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/triage "triage." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/triage.
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@misc{triage_2026,
title = {triage},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/triage},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
