The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TRIAGE
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More clues leading to the result TRIAGE
- Patient sorting of silver, dividing incomplete samples
- Hospital procedure taking long time after short journey
- Medical assessment has one probing temperature and madness
- Broken coffee beans, say, occasionally man is extremely reluctant to send back
- Spat, look, returning? Get agitated about that
- Urgency ranking, say, overturned after short hearing
- Sorting out cases of tetter, influenza and gangrene?
- Process of prioritising, working great around hospitals essentially
- Great! I organized patient prioritization
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The straight part
We know that "Broken coffee beans" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case broken coffee beans = triage.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TRIAGE mean?
TRIAGE 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.
- To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.