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pigeonholing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | grouping |
| Type of | classification system |
| Derivation | pigeonhole |
Examples of pigeonholing
pigeonholing
On the surface, this second collection will do little to dispel such pigeonholing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Pigeonholing means that your employer has set up boundaries around you.
From the marcandangel.com
Unlike many of the heroes and villains of the Watergate saga, Felt defies easy pigeonholing.
From the washingtonpost.com
And, with his restless, buoyant curiosity, he resisted pigeonholing.
From the economist.com
Little wonder, then, that Messiaen's compositions defy pigeonholing.
From the time.com
Freaks'strength, and perhaps its ratings liability, was that it resisted easy pigeonholing.
From the time.com
I saw pigeonholing when my name came up in other people's reviews to describe what their play was.
From the omaha.com
That gives CityMaps plenty of room to be free from pigeonholing and to define itself as a mix.
From the techcrunch.com
And then, I want to attempt to remove the pigeonholing that you put what I'm talking about into.
From the gillmorgang.techcrunch.com
- Place into a small compartment
- A specific (often simplistic) category
- Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"
- (pigeonholing) grouping: a system for classifying things into groups
- Pigeonholing is a term used to describe processes that attempt to classify disparate entities into a small number of categories (usually, mutually exclusive ones).
- One of an array of compartments for sorting post, messages etc. at an office, or college (for example); A hole, or roosting place for pigeons; To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc
- (pigeonholing) the classification of disparate entities into categories, not always for the right reason
- (Pigeonholing) An attempt to subsume something into a frame-of-reference that is too small to incorporate the thing. "You call me a name so you don't have to see me - you just see the name that you call me."
- Deo Landicho on Fotopedia
