triage
Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.
Is triage a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of triage?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (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).countableuncountable
2. (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.broadlycountableuncountable
3. (rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.Examples: "Similarly, any group of sidings is known to army railway personnel as a "triage". This word is derived from the French verb trier, which means literally "to sort," and hence "triage" has become the common army expression for a marshalling yard."Britishcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (chiefly medicine) To subject to triage; to prioritize.Examples: "Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged" as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton."; "With the ambulance service the calls are triaged, so your response time can be anything from six minutes for a life-threatening call to an hour and a half for a broken limb."; "I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later."
Definition source: Wiktionary