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词汇 pigeonholed
释义 pigeonholed
past simple and past participle ofpigeonhole
pigeonhole
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈpɪdʒ.ən.həʊl/ us /ˈpɪdʒ.ən.hoʊl/
usually disapproving
to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is: 把…不公平地分类
He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed.他是个电影制片人,不能把他简单地归于哪一类。
to put something away or leave it until a later time: 搁置,留置
Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.顾问们感到相当沮丧——他们的报告只是被部分实施,或更糟糕地只是束之高阁。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Classifying and creating order
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misorder
noisy
pigeonhole
shortlist
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sort something out
spring-clean
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Delaying and wasting time

Examples of pigeonholed


pigeonholed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Since the mid-1980s, exchanges have been pigeonholed and professionalised into something very different from the sweeping utopian projects of the postwar period.
Not every lexical item in a language allows itself to be so neatly pigeonholed, but is your lexicographer deterred?
It is then much easier to understand that real molecules and minerals cannot always be pigeonholed into one or another type.
Whether positive or negative, each resident was pigeonholed by a single, all-encompassing label, which thus became a metonymy of that person, a sign of their entire personality.
They paid lip service to regeneration but were pigeonholed and never implemented.
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Reports which are unwelcome or uncomfortable are simply shelved or pigeonholed.
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They were only pigeonholed over the course of the morning.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The fact that he says that any recommendation will have consideration now is proof that they are pigeonholed and do not go to him.
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There are other frauds, or frauds as they would be defined elsewhere in the world, which are not so clearly pigeonholed.
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Are the work and staff returns which are sent into regional headquarters ever looked at or are they really pigeonholed?
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Government or policy, when they are pigeonholed for all time.
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Why has a national trial to assess the impact of the drug on disability been pigeonholed?
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There is, therefore, no question of our having pigeonholed its report.
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We produced a report, which has been pigeonholed, which contained recommendations about the manner in which labour should be used in the dockyards.
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I am appalled at the fact that their work may in fact be pigeonholed.
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