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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tri•age /triˈɑʒ, ˈtriɑʒ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- the process of selecting among victims, as of a battle, to decide in what order to help them with medical treatment:In triage doctors usually decide to treat first those victims that have the best chance of surviving, leaving the nearly dead to die.
- the act of triage.
adj. [before a noun] - of or relating to triage:a triage officer.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tri•age (trē äzh′),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -aged, ag•ing. n. - the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- the determination of priorities for action in an emergency.
adj. - of, pertaining to, or performing the task of triage:a triage officer.
v.t. - to act on or in by triage:to triage a crisis.
- French: sorting, equivalent. to tri(er) to sort (see try) + -age -age
- 1925–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: triage /ˈtriːˌɑːʒ; ˌtriːˈɑːʒ ˈtraɪ-/ n - (in a hospital) the principle or practice of sorting emergency patients into categories of priority for treatment
- the principle or practice of sorting casualties in battle or disaster into categories of priority for treatment
- the principle or practice of allocating limited resources, as of food or foreign aid, on a basis of expediency rather than according to moral principles or the needs of the recipients
Etymology: 18th Century (in the sense: sorting (goods) according to quality): from French; see try, -age |