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# triage

«triage» in Mova's school dictionary: **deciding the order in which sick or injured people are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (triage — uncountable); verb (triage, triages, triaged, triaging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Triage is deciding the order in which sick or injured people are treated, based on who needs help most urgently, as in a hospital emergency department or after a disaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#m1)

2) (general) Triage means sorting any problems or jobs into order of importance so the most urgent are dealt with first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#m2)

3) (verb) To triage means to sort patients or jobs in this way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and first-aid lessons, triage explains why, in A and E, a badly hurt person is seen before someone who arrived earlier with a small cut: it is fair because it is about need. In everyday and work life, teachers, IT helpers and parents also "triage" jobs. Phrases: "triage nurse", "in triage", "triage system".

### examples

- At A and E, a triage nurse checked how ill I was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x1)
- Triage means the most urgent patients are seen first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x2)
- After the earthquake, doctors set up triage tents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x3)
- Someone with a broken leg may wait while a heart attack patient is treated; that's triage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x4)
- The help desk triaged all the computer problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x5)
- Mum triaged the chores: dinner first, washing later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x6)
- The paramedics did triage at the scene of the crash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/#x7)

### note

Uncountable noun; verb is regular: triaged. From French "trier" (to sort). Pronounced "TREE-ahzh". Being seen later in triage does not mean you are not important; it means others are in more danger.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «triage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.