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compartmentalizer

Definitions

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  • noun One who compartmentalizes.

Etymologies

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compartmentalize +‎ -er

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Examples

  • This might be an artificial category, but I'm a compartmentalizer, and when I think of writers who have put out both a recent novel and collection that are bought top-shelf, I think of Tamar Yellin with her The Genizah at the House of Shepher and Kafka in Bronteland.

    MIND MELD: The Best Women Writers in SF/F 2009

  • The theory that Mr. Woods was a cold - blooded compartmentalizer whose game would be immune to his personal crisis?

    The Unsettling Sight of a Tiger Tamed 2010

  • Instead it portrays Kennedy as a mean, selfish and not-very-sexy compartmentalizer.

    And Before Bill, There was Jack: Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer Tenured Radical 2009

  • Instead it portrays Kennedy as a mean, selfish and not-very-sexy compartmentalizer.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Tenured Radical 2009

  • I guess it helps that I've always been a compartmentalizer, but it's still a challenge.

    partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2003

  • This might be an artificial category, but I'm a compartmentalizer, and when I think of writers who have put out both a recent novel and collection that are bought top-shelf, I think of

    SF Signal 2009

  • Up in the Air examines the bittersweet life of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who fires people for a living, gliding through hotels and airports in a cushy, emotion-free existence, until an affair with a fellow compartmentalizer, Alex (Vera Farmiga), makes him realize how lonely he is.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • "Having a stable family life is very nice," he says, "but I can work under unstable conditions, too, because — this is not a skill, this is probably a shortcoming — I'm a compartmentalizer.

    Reconstructing Woody Peter Biskind 2005

  • "Having a stable family life is very nice," he says, "but I can work under unstable conditions, too, because — this is not a skill, this is probably a shortcoming — I'm a compartmentalizer.

    Reconstructing Woody Peter Biskind 2005

  • “Having a stable family life is very nice,” he says, “but I can work under unstable conditions, too, because — this is not a skill, this is probably a shortcoming — I’m a compartmentalizer.

    Reconstructing Woody Biskind, Peter 2005

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