batch

An amount of food or another product made at one time.

• I made a batch of cookies.
• The brewery produces small batches of beer.
• This batch of bread tastes better than yesterday’s.

How to use it: batch of something (She made a batch of soup.)

Similar words: lot

Common phrases: batch of cookies, fresh batch, small batch, production batch

A group of people or things dealt with at the same time.

• We processed the first batch of applications.
• The next batch of students starts training on Monday.
• Please send the forms in one batch.

How to use it: batch of people/things (The next batch of students arrives tomorrow.)

Similar words: group, set

Common phrases: batch of something, next batch, first batch

A group of similar things considered together.

• Another batch of letters arrived.
• She brought a large batch of documents to the meeting.
• I deleted the whole batch of unwanted emails.

How to use it: batch of something (A new batch of orders arrived today.)

Similar words: group, set, collection

Common phrases: batch of letters, new batch, batch of files

To put things together into groups so they can be handled at once.

• We batch the orders each evening.
• She batched the invoices together for payment.
• The system batches requests to reduce delays.

How to use it: batch something into something (We batch the orders into groups of fifty.)

Similar words: group, combine

Common phrases: batch something together, batch purchase orders, batch payments

To live temporarily without your usual partner and look after yourself.

• I am batching while my wife is away.
• He batched it for a week and cooked simple meals.
• She was visiting relatives, so he batched at home.

Similar words: bach

Common phrases: batch it, batch at home

Working on one set of materials or tasks, then stopping before starting another set.

• The factory uses batch production.
• Batch processing runs after the office closes.
• This batch operation stops when all the files are processed.

Opposites: continuous

Common phrases: batch processing, batch production, batch operation