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batch1 noun 1 a number of things or people dealt with at the same time • a batch of loaves • saw another batch of applicants today. 2 in banking: a a number of credit items and the corresponding debit items listed to ensure that the totals of each agree; b (the batch) the process of listing and agreeing the items in such a batch • This cheque hasn't been through the batch yet. verb (batched, batching) 1 to arrange or treat something in batches. 2 computing to deal with (data) by batch processing.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c as bache, meaning 'a baking' or 'a quantity of bread baked in one baking', from Anglo-Saxon bacan to bake.
batch2 verb (batched, batching) intrans, Austral & NZ colloq said of a man: to cook and clean, etc for himself.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: from bach short for bachelor.
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