batch
noun/bætʃ/
/bætʃ/
- a number of people or things that are dealt with as a group
- Each summer a new batch of students tries to find work.
- He worked his way through the next batch of emails and messages.
- in batches We deliver the goods in batches.
Extra Examples- How many books are there in each batch?
- Have you seen the latest batch of opinion polls?
- Funding has been approved for an initial batch of 35 aircraft.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- small
- whole
- …
- in a/the batch
- batch of
- an amount of food, medicine, etc. produced at one time
- Shall I make another batch of cookies?
- loaves of bread baked in batches of 20
- He baked a fresh batch of rolls.
- It is necessary to make new batches of flu vaccine whenever a different, virulent strain of flu makes an appearance.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- small
- whole
- …
- in a/the batch
- batch of
- (computing) a set of jobs that are processed together on a computer
- to process a batch job
- a batch file/program
- to run in batch mode
Oxford Collocations Dictionarybatch + noun- job
- file
- program
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the senses ‘process of baking’, ‘quantity produced at one baking’): based on an Old English word related to bacan, of Germanic origin. Current senses date from the early 18th cent.
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