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bracket

2 verb
     
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bracket2 [transitive usually passive]
1 to consider two or more people or things as being similar or the same
bracket somebody together
Women and minors were bracketed together for the legislation.
bracket somebody with somebody
Arizona has been bracketed with Iowa in the tournament.
2SLA to put brackets around a written word, piece of information etc:
Debit amounts are bracketed.
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