hot wash

plural hot washes

1. alternativeAlternative form of hotwash.

   Key postevent activities include debriefing, hot wash, and evaluation (USDHS, 2013).

   2015, Sharon Stanley, Thola A. Bennecoff Wolanski, Designing and Integrating a Disaster Preparedness Curriculum

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   Everyone is accustomed to taking time to do a "hot wash," which happens during the action, or a "cold wash," which is done immediately after the action is completed.

   2000, John A. Woods, James W. Cortada, The 2001 ASTD Training and Performance Yearbook, page 385

   A debrief (for facilitators or controllers/evaluators) and/or hot wash (for players) should occur following both discussion- and operations-based exercises.

   2006, McCormick Taylor, Transportation Security

   In the “hot wash” meeting after the exercise the participants agreed that cellular phones would be excluded from all future exercises and actual responses to prevent this limitation of information (Edwards and Goodrich, 2006).

   2007, Frances L. Edwards, Friedrich Steinhäusler, NATO And Terrorism, page 76

2. The act of washing laundry in hot water, or the setting on a washing machine for such a wash.