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- verb Alternative spelling of
compartmentalize .
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- verb separate into isolated compartments or categories
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Examples
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However, this time there is a stronger realisation amongst Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh that India and Pakistan should 'compartmentalise' their issues, put them aside and come to the SAARC summit, so that the idea of the regional grouping becomes workable.
rediff.com 2010
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However, this time there is a stronger realisation amongst Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh that India and Pakistan should 'compartmentalise' their issues, put them aside and come to the SAARC summit, so that the idea of the regional grouping becomes workable.
rediff.com 2010
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It seems that people like to compartmentalise their perceptions and genres.
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Because every one of Britain's major retailers has its ideas developed here, and because they are all fiercely competitive, Sanderson has to compartmentalise his work.
Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011
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Kelly had said he would need to compartmentalise … something you learn very quickly when you fly an airplane, to separate the mission from things that might be going on in your private life.
Gabrielle Giffords's astronaut husband prepares for space mission 2011
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Some teams create a “Responsibility Grid” to help them compartmentalise.
How To Turn Your Creative Brainstorm Into A Completed Project | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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And if we reject scripture, we have another dilemma: do we also have to reject the very idea of God, or can we somehow rationalise or compartmentalise the cognitive dissonance?
Paul Hunting: Does Science Validate the Book of Genesis? 2010
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Some teams create a “Responsibility Grid” to help them compartmentalise.
How To Turn Your Creative Brainstorm Into A Completed Project | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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In each case, of course, the girl was the only one for me, so it was essential to compartmentalise and act in a generally deceitful way.
High Street North « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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We've proved that you can be senior cabinet ministers and have young children, and we've only done that through a lot of sharing, but this is a step beyond being a senior cabinet minister, and I don't think Yvette thinks she can compartmentalise to the extent you need to in order to survive that kind of pressure and also have a young family.
Ed Balls: 'Tony and Gordon never found a way to bring it together' 2010
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