triagedadj.
/ˈtriːɑːʒd/, /ˈtrʌɪɑːʒd/, /ˈtriːɪdʒd/, /ˈtrʌɪɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˈtriɑʒd/, /triˈɑʒd/ΚΠ
1747 J. Smith Chronicon Rusticum-commerciale II. cliv. 424 We see the great Difference between the Price of the better Spanish Wools en Surge, and the same washed and triaged.
1750 W. Temple Refut. Smith's Mem. Wool 19 Such are the Errors Mr Smith has plunged into, by comparing the Price of the best triaged Wools at a foreign Market, with the Price of the midling untriaged Wools, from the Farmer in England.
2. Originally Medicine: (of patients) given a preliminary assessment to determine the nature and degree of urgency of treatment required. Later also more generally: (of a number of people or things requiring attention) assessed to determine those which are most urgent, important, etc.; prioritized. Cf. triage n. 2, triage v. 2.Somewhat rare before the late 20th cent.
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1958 Mil. Med. Sept. 192/2 The establishment of communications from each Evacuation Team to its Local Medical Control Center, and in turn to the Central Medical Control Center, will assure a proper distribution of the triaged patients to all available facilities for definitive care.
1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Early ed.) b1 Besides facing questions on the number of patrol officers in outlying regions, police have faced harsh questioning on their new system of ‘triaged’ calls.
2013 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 5 June (Final ed.) a16 I rang the buzzer to the ER room and spoke with an orderly, who then took the patient by wheelchair to be re-triaged... Sometimes a triaged person's status changes while waiting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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