1. the process of sorting patients or casualties to determine priority of treatment based on severity of condition
Usage: medical
2. the process of determining the order of importance of tasks or problems

1. to sort or prioritize according to urgency or importance

Examples

• The emergency room nurse performed triage on incoming patients.
• During the disaster, medical teams used triage to save the most lives possible.
• The project manager had to triage the bug reports by severity.
• We need to triage these customer complaints and handle the urgent ones first.
• The doctor will triage the patients based on their symptoms.
• IT support triaged the system issues to fix critical problems first.
• The triage process helped organize the overwhelming number of cases.