Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sugar-beet growing, same as
blocking .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
bunch . - noun countable An arrangement of items in a bunch.
- noun uncountable The
illegitimate supplying oflaboratory animals that are actuallykidnapped pets or illegallytrapped strays .
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Examples
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Service interruptions are unpredictable, but bus bunching is a function of street traffic and rider volume.
Further Adventures in Bus Stop Strategy - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Wariness was measured by how closely individuals were spaced within the herds known as bunching while listening to the playbacks of contact calls broadcast by researchers.
The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007
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Wariness was measured by how closely individuals were spaced within the herds known as bunching while listening to the playbacks of contact calls broadcast by researchers.
The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007
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Wariness was measured by how closely individuals were spaced within the herds known as bunching while listening to the playbacks of contact calls broadcast by researchers.
The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007
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Wariness was measured by how closely individuals were spaced within the herds known as bunching while listening to the playbacks of contact calls broadcast by researchers.
The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007
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We assume more than flowers or a "bunching" as David Cameron once put it.
David Cameron welcomes Ed Miliband back with a baby gift and an insult Simon Hoggart 2010
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Some donors benefit by "bunching," or combining several years of donations into a single year, rather than contributing smaller amounts each year.
Rules for Giving 2008
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New tasks arise, such as bunching up the carts left behind by customers and steering them to their place in the front of the store every half hour or so.
Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001
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Given that, it is upsetting to have a reviewer insist on treating my book of criticism "mainly from a biographical point of view," as Miller announces he is doing (for which the NYR's practice of "bunching" is partly to blame); it is of course upsetting to me personally, but also because it shows how difficult it is, amidst the everpresent sensationalizing, for Plath's work to be treated with the seriousness it deserves.
Not a Conspiracy Kroll, Judith 1977
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By this time they was kind of bunching together and telling each other things in low tones, while not seeming to look at Hetty and her dupes, at which all would giggle in the most venemous manner.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
vendingmachine commented on the word bunching
n. The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays. (Does this include animals advertised online (i.e. FREE KITTENS) that are furtively used to feed one's snakes or other predators?)
n. In sugar-beet growing, same as blocking.
April 14, 2016