triage

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiː.ɑːʒ/

The English word “triage” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
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.)
The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
A marshalling yard, classification yard.

Borrowed from French triage, from trier (“to sort”).

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