triage

  1. Noun.  Assessment or sorting according to quality.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) 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).
  3. Verb.  To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.

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