Triage
WordNet
noun
(1) Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
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Etymology
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Noun
- 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
- The process of sorting patients according to urgency of illness or injury, in order to ascertain which order to treat them in.