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Definition of categorize verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

  

categorize

 verb
verb
NAmE//ˈkæt̮əɡəˌraɪz//
 
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they categorize
 
he / she / it categorizes
 
past simple categorized
 
-ing form categorizing
 
 
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to put people or things into groups according to what type they are synonym classify categorize somebody/something Participants were categorized according to age. categorize somebody/something as something His latest work cannot be categorized as either a novel or an autobiography.
 categorization
 
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NAmE//ˌkæt̮əɡərəˈzeɪʃn//
 
noun [countable, uncountable]See categorize in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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