categorization

categorize | Business English

categorize
verb[ T ]
(UK alsocategorise)uk /ˈkætəɡəraɪz/us
to put people or things into groups of people or things that have the same features:
categorize sb/sth as sthYou can categorize your company's strategy as a reactor, defender, analyzer, or prospector.
categorize sth into sthThe Trade Reform Programme can be categorized into six major areas of activity.
be categorized by sthThe view that people are best categorized by their socioeconomic status has never been popular in the United States.

categorization

noun[ C or U ](UK alsocategorisation)uk /ˌkætəɡəraɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /ˌkæṱəɡəraɪ-/
These are categorizations used in economic statistics.
Is the government going to embrace racial categorization of citizens, or reject it and treat Americans equally under the law?

Examples of categorize

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Data were categorized according to the themes included in the questionnaire and the interviews.
They categorize variables into four types: cabinet attributes, country attributes, attributes of the party system and controls.
The industry can be categorized into three fund types - 'retail ' superannuation funds, 'not-for-profit ' superannuation funds and ' self-managed ' superannuation funds.
One approach would be to categorize the results on the basis of uncertainty; for example, clearly worthwhile funding, uncertain, or obviously not worthwhile.
Hence, we decided to categorize all instances of extra vowels at the end of a noun as ambiguous.
The book's table of contents demonstrates the disciplined structuring of the various topics but also reflects the author's propensity to categorize and pass judgment.
The foreign learners were relatively accurate at categorizing regular words but extremely inaccurate at categorizing exceptional words.
They categorize the four areas covered by the technical papers in the conference and summarize the highlights of the plenary sessions.
This suggests it would be suitable for adoption by supporting agencies to categorize both existing caseloads and new referrals.
The younger children use mainly utterances categorized as neutral, dependent on who they are addressing.
In the ranking approach, the indicator establishes unitless ranks that categorize data points on the pesticide's toxicity to humans and a variety of beneficial organisms.
Activity was assessed by monitoring six different independent categories of murine behaviour, which were independently timed and categorized.
And in any case, categorizing the 'unreasonable' as beyond the pale offers no practical guidance to marginalized groups facing entrenched, unreasonable opponents.
We developed operational criteria to categorize the course of the illness.
In terms of injury severity, the majority of subjects were categorized as ' mild ' and only five subjects were rated as having a ' severe ' injury.
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