Meaning & use
grouping
A collection of people or things gathered together and treated as a single category.
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The census organizes households into groupings based on income and location.
The librarian created a new grouping for books about local history.
A note on using this word
Grouping emphasizes the process or result of classifying items, while 'group' can simply mean a gathered set.
Words with a similar meaning
categorycluster
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