OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 24704

pigeonhole

/ˈpɪdʒ(ɪ)nhəʊl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
encasillar
To place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive; to categorize, to classify, to label.
Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek.
He prided himself on his largeness when he granted that there were three kinds of women […] Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions. He refused to cla…