Cataloguing

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of arranging in, or as if in, a catalogue. UK, countable, uncountable

    "[…] he has made astonishingly subtle cataloguings of the kinds of interactions and situations which strip the child of his own powers in the most benign and loving ways […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of catalogue form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"The system was devised for cataloguing and indexing purposes, but it was found on trial to be equally valuable for numbering and arranging books and pamphlets on the shelves."

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