Meaning & use
triaging
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Sorting and prioritizing cases, tasks, or patients according to urgency or severity.
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The nurse spent the first hour of her shift triaging patients in the emergency room.
The support team is triaging bug reports so the most critical ones get fixed first.
A note on using this word
This is the present-participle form of the verb "triage," a term that originated in emergency medicine but is now common in tech, customer support, and project management.
Words with a similar meaning
prioritizingsorting
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