0 past simple and past participle of pigeonhole
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.
Since the mid-1980s, exchanges have been pigeonholed and professionalised into something very different from the sweeping utopian projects of the postwar period.
Not every lexical item in a language allows itself to be so neatly pigeonholed, but is your lexicographer deterred?
It is then much easier to understand that real molecules and minerals cannot always be pigeonholed into one or another type.
Whether positive or negative, each resident was pigeonholed by a single, all-encompassing label, which thus became a metonymy of that person, a sign of their entire personality.
They paid lip service to regeneration but were pigeonholed and never implemented.
Reports which are unwelcome or uncomfortable are simply shelved or pigeonholed.
They were only pigeonholed over the course of the morning.
The fact that he says that any recommendation will have consideration now is proof that they are pigeonholed and do not go to him.
