triage

Meanings

Noun

• Assessment or sorting according to quality.
• 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).
• The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
• That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.

Verb

• To prioritize.

Origin

• From French triage, from trier