Meaning

1 senses
  1. To separate something into different categories, or compartments.

    aufgliedern, unterteilen

    separate into isolated compartments or categories

Examples

4 sentences
  1. You have a bad habit of wanting to compartmentalize things.

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  2. If you work on compartmentalizing, your emotions will be a lot easier to handle.

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  3. With remote work, it's even harder to compartmentalize your work and your personal life.

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  4. Many problems can occur when employees inside the company are compartmentalized and don't communicate with each other.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
separate into different categories:

Forms

compartmentalizes, compartmentalizing, compartmentalized, compartmentalized
Base formcompartmentalize · to compartmentalize
3rd person singularcompartmentalizes
Present participlecompartmentalizing
Past simplecompartmentalized
Past participlecompartmentalized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycompartmentalize
he, she, itcompartmentalizes

Past simpleLesson

all personscompartmentalized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave compartmentalized
he, she, ithas compartmentalized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill compartmentalize

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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