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noun see: try Date: 1918 1. the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors, the sorting of patients (as in an emergency room) according to the urgency of their need for care, the assigning of priority order to projects on the basis of where funds and other resources can be best used, are most needed, or are most likely to achieve success, ~ transitive verb