Etymology

triage

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Today it means: Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated. Full definition →

French triage
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  1. Frenchtrier
  2. Frenchtriage
  3. English todaytriage

Borrowed from French triage, from trier (“to sort”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.