- 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: She began her workday with a triage of emails.
- of, relating to, or performing the task of triage: a triage officer.
- to act on or in by triage: to triage a crisis.
- (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
