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   batch

   /batʃ/

   noun

   • 1. a quantity or consignment of goods produced at one time: "a batch of bread"
   • ▪ a number of things or people regarded as a group or set: "a batch of loyalists and sceptics"
   • ▪ a group of records processed as a single unit, usually without input from a user: "this should be run as a batch program from the process directory"

   verb

   • 1. arrange (things) in sets or groups: "I had nothing to do but batch the reports"

   Word Origin late 15th century (in the senses ‘process of baking’, ‘quantity produced at one baking’): based on an Old English word related to bacan (see bake1). Current senses date from the early 18th century.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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