batch
Other forms: batches; batching; batched
A batch is a completed group, collection, or quantity of something, especially something that's just been made. You might, for example, bake a batch of cookies to take to your new neighbor.
A company that makes soap might deliver a batch, loaded on a truck, to a new store in Vermont, and if you manage a bakery you might declare, "That's it! This is our last batch of gingerbread until next year!" In computer lingo, a batch is, similarly, a group or collection of records. The Old English root, bæcce, means "something baked," from bacan, "bake."
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a collection of things or persons to be handled togethersynonyms: clutchtype of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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all the loaves of bread baked at the same timetype of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent“a batch of letters”synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadtypes:haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservationtype of:large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantityan indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
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batch together; assemble or process as a batchtype of:grouparrange into a group or groups
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