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triage

verb as in pay immediate attention to particular priorities

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But she’s grateful to have a crisis to triage.

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During a shutdown, agencies must identify and keep essential employees on the job, forcing a triage that reveals the government’s assessment of what it needs to function.

The Americans were in triage mode, as a senior administration official put it.

“We’re going to have to make things work, and that means that we’re going to have to triage some certain things,” he said.

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The BMA has also warned there would be a "potential online triage tsunami" with no additional workforce to cope with the extra demand.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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