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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
compartmentalize . - adjective
divided intocompartments
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- adjective divided up into compartments or categories
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Examples
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Did you think the blogsphere was cozily compartmentalized from the real world? mood: Sabre tonight music: Rolling Stones
Did you think the blogsphere was cozily compartmentalized from the real world? zornhau 2005
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We decided to tape every experience that I had and that before the taping -- this is audio tape -- we took all of the documents, the notebooks, the papers, the things I had saved throughout my 25-year military experience and we "compartmentalized" -- we envisioned we would be writing 18 chapters.
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And what the authorities are particularly concerned about now is that, is there a separate cell, one that's been compartmentalized, that is not directly connected to this one, but, nevertheless, had similar instruction and an intention to carry a similar type of attack?
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Gonzales testified that he did not recall the compartmentalized security classification given to certain documents
Harper's Magazine 2008
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The source said that the program is so "compartmentalized" that senior figures within the Obama administration and the US military chain of command may not be aware of its existence.
OpEdNews - Diary: Covert Operations in Pakistan Revealed 2009
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For Republicans, the first four races feel more "compartmentalized" than the Democratic races do, Mr. Rothenberg said.
Counting the Votes 2008
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One irony of DeLay's predicament is that he is relying on some of the same techniques that his onetime foe, President Bill Clinton, used to weather his storms: Aides emphasize how DeLay's office is "compartmentalized" so that only a few aides work on scandal management, and they insist the majority leader is little distracted from his duties.
May 2005 2005
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This is due both to the governor’s innate propensity to improvise, as well as to what a number of current and former Paterson insiders describe as compartmentalized staff that doesn’t always act, or provide advice, in concert.
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This is due both to the governor’s innate propensity to improvise, as well as to what a number of current and former Paterson insiders describe as compartmentalized staff that doesn’t always act, or provide advice, in concert.
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The break-in was an ultrasensitive, "compartmentalized" operation.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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