pigeonhole Значение & определение

Значение на pigeonhole на български

• 0 one of a set of small boxes, open at the front, in which letters and messages are left for different people:

  • Leave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.

• 1 to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is:

  • He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed.

  • Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.

• 2 to put someone or something into a group or type, often unfairly:

  • He’s was pigeonholed early on in his career as a gospel singer.

• 3 to form a fixed and often unfair idea of what someone or something is like:

  • They say reviewers are pigeonholing their studies and making unfair judgements about potentially useful research.

  • be pigeonholed as sth We decided to drop the .com in our name because we didn't want to be pigeonholed as an internet company.

  • I was pigeonholed early in my career.

• 4 one of a set of small boxes along a wall in which mail, messages, etc. can be left:

  • She left her business card in my pigeonhole.

• 5 disapproving a particular group of similar things that people or things are put into:

  • put sb/sth in a pigeonhole My boss put me in a pigeonhole, so I was never considered for work in other departments.