How to pronounce "triage"

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Raise your hand, and be honest, if you've used the phrase "crazy busy"

to describe your day,

your week,

your month.

I'm an emergency-room doctor,

and "crazy busy" is a phrase you will never hear me use.

Step one to go from Crazy Mode to Ready Mode is to relentlessly triage.

In Crazy Mode, you're always busy, always stressed,

because you're reacting to every challenge with the same response.

Contrast that with Ready Mode, where we triage,

which means we prioritize by degree of urgency.

Red -- immediately life-threatening.

Yellow -- serious, but not immediately life-threatening.

Green -- minor.

And we focus our efforts first on the reds.

So start by triaging correctly.

Know your reds.

Phonetic Breakdown of "triage"

Learn how to break down "triage" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.

Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/ˈtɹiː.ɑːʒ/

/tɹiˈɑʒ/

Phonetic representation based on standard dictionaries

IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

T R AY1 IH0 JH

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Definition of "triage"

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiː.ɑːʒ/

Noun

Assessment or sorting according to quality.
The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
(by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.

Verb

To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.