Sentence:  Let us think of <WSD>triage</WSD>, and remember the word's origins. It began with French wool growers in the eighteenth century, but its most illuminating use comes from eighteenth century coffee bean growers, who sorted their beans into best, middling, and broken. The last category came to be known as <WSD>'triage</WSD> coffee.' In war we attend to the most seriously wounded first, which is how most of [us] understand the word today. ... Therefore to protect the best and the middling, we must sell off our <WSD>'triage</WSD> coffee.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Assessment or sorting according to quality.