Complete Definition of "triage"

English
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Etymology
From French #French|triage, from trier �to pick, cull�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�tɹaɪɪʤ/, /�tɹi����/

Noun
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  1. Assessment or sorting according to quality.

#*2007: [Mike Davis] notes that the �late capitalist triage of humanity� has �already taken place� � Jeremy Harding, �It Migrates to Them�, London Review of Books 29:5, p. 26

  1. medicine The process of sorting patients according to urgency of illness or injury, in order to ascertain which order to treat them in.

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