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grouping

American  
[groo-ping] / ˈgru pɪŋ /

noun

  1. an act or process of placing in groups.

  2. a set or arrangement of persons or things in a group.


grouping British  
/ ˈɡruːpɪŋ /

noun

  1. a planned arrangement of things, people, etc, within a group

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Etymology

Origin of grouping

1740–50; See group, -ing 1, -ing 2

Example Sentences

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Major exports from the South American grouping to the EU include agricultural products and minerals, while the 27-country bloc would export machinery, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals with smaller levies.

From Barron's

They even mused that a fund manager might want to have two benchmarks — one for the top grouping of stocks, and then another for the rest — though they concede it would cause “operational complexities.”

From MarketWatch

Backing up this view, Matejka identifies a significant valuation differential in favor of emerging and international stocks as well as “extreme positioning” with a still elevated concentration in the Magnificent Seven grouping of stocks.

From MarketWatch

Instead of looking directly for faint starlight, they searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, which are dense, spherical collections of stars that typically orbit galaxies.

From Science Daily

Significant groupings appear beneath the Himalayas in southern Asia and near the Bering Strait between Asia and North America, south of the Arctic Circle.

From Science Daily