compartmentalizing

[kuhm-pahrt-men-tl-ahyz, kom-pahrt-]

com·part·men·tal·ize

[kuhm-pahrt-men-tl-ahyz, kom-pahrt-]
verb (used with object), com·part·men·tal·ized, com·part·men·tal·iz·ing.
to divide into categories or compartments.
Also, especially British, com·part·men·tal·ise.


Origin:
1920–25; compartmental + -ize

com·part·men·tal·i·za·tion, noun
de·com·part·men·tal·i·za·tion, noun
de·com·part·men·tal·ize, verb (used with object), de·com·part·men·tal·ized, de·com·part·men·tal·iz·ing.
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Compartmentalizing is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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