compartmentalize
She juggled her responsibilities in part by brain compartmentalization.
We need a watertight compartmentalization of political and legislative endeavors.
The network also used compartmentalization, or limiting each person's knowledge, so that in case one is arrested, he will not be able to identify the other.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Isolating and separating
at one/this etc. removeidiom
Brexit
compartmentalize
compartmentation
cone something off
estranged from someone
estrangement
estrangement from someone
free-floating
hard Brexitidiom
resegregate
rope
rope something/somewhere off
screen something off
seclude
uninsulated
unintegrated
wrench
wrenching
zonal

Examples of compartmentalization

compartmentalization
Specialised compartmentalization ensured that management was expert in the narrow range of financial services offered.
The latter realizes an architectural compartmentalization of space that provides rich opportunities for day-to-day living - space architecture.
Computers are multi-tasking machines with sophisticated levels of compartmentalization.
Endocytosis and compartmentalization of lysosomal enzymes in normal and mutant mammalian cells: mannose 6-phosphate-dependent pathway.
In addition, there was obvious compartmentalization and proliferation of cristae.
All of these disorders are characterized by avoidance behaviors or compartmentalization, which reflect views of others as unreliable and possibly harmful.
No difference in compartmentalization or staining intensity in cells was observed as a function of cell or bud size.
Gestational compartmentalization of the potassium chloride and the expanded maternal volume of distribution during pregnancy both offer protection against maternal systemic toxicity.
The presence of lysosomal enzymes within the layer suggests autolysosomal compartmentalization of excess substrate and effete material.
The desert environment in which this host-parasite association occurs imposes a strict compartmentalization on life-cycle processes.
The close match between ant body size and domatium size represents one mechanism that helps us to understand the compartmentalization of this ant-myrmecophyte community.
The author takes an integrated approach in avoiding the usual compartmentalization of structural geology and stratigraphy.
Together, these findings support our hypothesis that neuron-glial compartmentalization of antioxidants is crucial for neuronal signaling as well as neuronal protection.
Information processing modes (in parallel) or levels (in hierarchy) of signal transduction are the molecular basis of life, via forced specialization and compartmentalization.
In contrast, aminopeptidases of other parasites have shown different substrate specificities, molecular weights or compartmentalization.
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