triage

Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.countableuncountable

• [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.

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).countableuncountable

A facility within a hospital that screens walk-in patients and determines which department or clinic to send them to. (See also triage center.)countableuncountable

• I knew where most of the medical supplies were kept. I went to triage. The room was chaos.
• Triage was busy and noisy, and suddenly I had no energy.

The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.broadlycountableuncountable

That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.countableuncountable

A marshalling yard, classification yard.UKcountableuncountable

• Similarly, any group of sidings is known to army railway personnel as a "triage". This word is derived from the French verb trier, which means literally "to sort," and hence "triage" has become the common army expression for a marshalling y

To subject to triage; to prioritize.

• With the ambulance service the calls are triaged, so your response time can be anything from six minutes for a life-threatening call to an hour and a half for a broken limb.
• I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.