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noun
- Assessment or sorting according to quality.
- 2007: Mike Davis notes that the "late capitalist of humanity" has "already taken place" " Jeremy Harding, "It Migrates to Them", London Review of Books 29:5, p. 26
- (medicine) The process of sorting patients according to urgency of illness or injury, in order to ascertain which order to treat them in.
Etymology: From French French, triage, from trier "to pick, cull".
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