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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of assorting; separation into classes.
- noun A collection of various kinds; a variety.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of assorting or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes, or of selecting and suiting.
- noun A collection of things assorted: as, an assortment of goods; “an assortment of paintings,”
- noun A class or group into which objects are assorted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.
- noun A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.
- noun A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
collection of varying but related items.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- noun a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
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Examples
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This eclectic assortment is characteristic of all the household purchasers, with the exception of Hester Smit from the neighboring Halve Dorschvloer.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Speaking of casting ballots ... voting for The Twelve Babes of Christmas assortment is underway, and I totally didn't notice.
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We are building the right mix of stores, Bay, Zellers, Home Outfitters by market to ensure the full HBC assortment is in place, in the proper proportion, a shopping solution by market.
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Despite weak fourth-quarter results, the chain made significant operational improvements in 2008, would expand its private label assortment with three new in-house A/V brands, and would introduce a new ad campaign in July that leveraged RadioShack's heritage while "clarifying its positioning" in the marketplace, Day said.
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Despite weak fourth-quarter results, the chain made significant operational improvements in 2008, would expand its private label assortment with three new in-house A/V brands, and would introduce a new ad campaign in July that leveraged RadioShack's heritage while "clarifying its positioning" in the marketplace, Day said.
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Despite weak fourth-quarter results, the chain made significant operational improvements in 2008, would expand its private label assortment with three new in-house A/V brands, and would introduce a new ad campaign in July that leveraged RadioShack's heritage while "clarifying its positioning" in the marketplace, Day said.
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The assortment is a perfect combination of our aesthetics.
Blue Carreon: A Conversation With Handbag Designer Fiona Kotur Blue Carreon 2011
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But in doing so, the brand neglected its tops assortment, which is a big driver of sales.
Gap Brand President Marka Hansen to Leave Elizabeth Holmes 2011
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The assortment is a perfect combination of our aesthetics.
Blue Carreon: A Conversation With Handbag Designer Fiona Kotur Blue Carreon 2011
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His only recourse: Take down both corporations, with the help of a ragtag assortment of unusually talented junkyard misfits.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast Interviews: Survival of the Dead and Micmacs 2010
Related Words
synonyms (83)
Words with the same meaning
- agglomeration
- all sorts
- allay
- alleviate
- appease
- array
- assemblage
- assuage
- batch
- broad spectrum
- calm
- categorization
- category
- class
- classification
- collectanea
- collection
- conciliate
- conglomerate
- conglomeration
- culling
- ease
- farrago
- gallimaufry
- gradation
- group
- grouping
- hash
- hodgepodge
- hotchpot
- hotchpotch
- jumble
- lighten
- lot
- magpie
- mash
- medley
- melange
- mess
- mingle-mangle
- miscellanea
- miscellany
- mishmash
- mitigate
- mix
- mixed bag
- mixture
- mollify
- oddments
- odds and ends
- olio
- olla podrida
- omnium-gatherum
- pasticcio
- pastiche
- patchwork
- placate
- placement
- potpourri
- propitiate
- ranking
- relax
- salad
- salmagundi
- sauce
- scramble
- screening
- selection
- set
- sifting
- slack
- slacken
- soothe
- sorting
- sorting out
- stew
- subordination
- sundries
- sweeten
- taxonomy
- triage
- variety
- what you will
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