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Definition of bracket verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

bracket

verb
 
/ˈbrækɪt/
 
/ˈbrækɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bracket
 
/ˈbrækɪt/
 
/ˈbrækɪt/
he / she / it brackets
 
/ˈbrækɪts/
 
/ˈbrækɪts/
past simple bracketed
 
/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
 
/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
past participle bracketed
 
/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
 
/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
-ing form bracketing
 
/ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/
 
/ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/
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  1. bracket something to put words, information, etc. between brackets
  2. bracket A and B (together) | bracket A (together) with B [often passive] to consider people or things to be similar or connected in some way
    • It is unfair to bracket together those who cannot work with those who will not.
    • He is sometimes wrongly bracketed with the ‘new wave’ film directors.
    • The two writers are often bracketed together by critics.
  3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’, from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae ‘breeches’.
See bracket in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bracket in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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