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batch Noun 1. a group of similar objects or people dispatched or dealt with at the same time 2. the bread, cakes, etc. produced at one baking Verb to group (items) for efficient processing [Middle English bache] Batch a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind, taken or made at the same time. See also lot, sort. Examples: batch of beers [a brewing], 1713; of bread [quantity baked at one time], 1461; of letters [usually a bundle] 1782; of notes; of politics, 1840; of prize money, 1838; of soup, 1878; of visitors, 1793.
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batch noun group, set, lot, crowd, pack, collection, quantity, bunch, accumulation, assortment, consignment, assemblage, aggregation Translations (of applicants) → Gruppe f; (of work) → Schwung m; |
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She had absolutely no taste in dress, and wore a batch of rusty black lace with a bunch of artificial violets pinned to the side of her hair. You brought out a book which had cost you years of thought and labour; it was given two or three contemptuous lines among a batch of similar volumes, twenty or thirty copies were sold, and the rest of the edition was pulped. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies. |
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