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Pigeonholing

noun
1.
A system for classifying things into groups.  Synonym: grouping.





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... for several reasons, it would be different. In the first place the civil rights leaders underestimated the sincerity of Truman's reaction to the racial violence. He had quickly agreed to create Niles's committee by executive order to save it from possible pigeonholing at the hands of a hostile Congress. He had also given the group, called the President's Committee on Civil Rights, a broad directive "to determine whether and in what respect current law enforcement measures and the authority and means possessed by Federal, State, ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
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... he had been getting ready. He had been saving vitality, building up character, indexing and pigeonholing experiences, accumulating and systematizing a long-continued series of observations and all the potentialities of intellect and personality out of which, when applied to proper conditions, success ...
— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge
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Words linked to "Pigeonholing" :   classification system, pigeonhole


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