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compartmentalize

 verb
     
com‧part‧men‧tal‧ize also compartmentalise British English [transitive]
to divide something into separate areas or groups:
Women are better than men at compartmentalizing their lives.
—compartmentalized adjective
—compartmentalization noun [uncountable]
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