triage
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The sorting of patients by urgency of need.
In triage, the chest-pain case was seen first.
Business verb
To rapidly assess and rank issues by severity so the most urgent are addressed first.
We triaged the sixty defects into fix-now, fix-later and won't-fix within an hour.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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