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4 definitions • 9 examples
1
the
process
of
quickly
examining
patients
who are
taken
to a
hospital
in
order
to
decide
which
ones
are the most
seriously
ill
and must be
treated
first:
Examples:
The team's
main
job is to
treat
trauma
victims
at the
scene
of a
disaster
and
perform
triage.
The triage
nurse
told him he would have to wait.
2
the
process
of
examining
problems
in
order
to
decide
which
ones
are the most
serious
and must be
dealt
with first:
Examples:
We are
performing
triage on
funding
requests
.
A
healthy
project
is in a
constant
state
of triage
between
bugs
and
feature
development
.
3
to
quickly
examine
patients
who are
taken
to a
hospital
in
order
to
decide
which
ones
are the most
seriously
ill
and must be
treated
first:
Examples:
The
casualties
were triaged.
Patients
are triaged so that those most in need get
blood
first.
The
hardest
thing for me was having to start triaging and
treating
patients
in a
less
than
ideal
environment
.
4
to
examine
problems
in
order
to
decide
which
ones
are the most
serious
and must be
dealt
with first:
Examples:
The job
consisted
of triaging
stacks
of
burglary
incident
reports
.
The
sheer
number
of
claims
has insurers triaging which policyholders get
attention
first.
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