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hot wash en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of hotwash.
   alt of hotwash
   • A debrief (for facilitators or controllers/evaluators) and/or hot wash (for players) should occur following both discussion- and operations-based exercises. 2006, McCormick Taylor, Transportation Security:
   • Everyone is accustomed to taking time to do a "hot wash," which happens during the action, or a "cold wash," which is done immediately after the action is completed. 2000, John A. Woods, James W. Cortada, The 2001 ASTD Training and Performance Yearbook, page 385:
   • In the “hot wash” meeting after the exercise the participants agreed that cellular phones would be excluded from all future exercises and actual responses to prevent this limitation of information (Edwards and Goodrich, 2006). 2007, Frances L. Edwards, Friedrich Steinhäusler, NATO And Terrorism, page 76:
   • Key postevent activities include debriefing, hot wash, and evaluation (USDHS, 2013). 2015, Sharon Stanley, Thola A. Bennecoff Wolanski, Designing and Integrating a Disaster Preparedness Curriculum:
2. The act of washing laundry in hot water, or the setting on a washing machine for such a wash.

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