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A system for organizing things into named groups according to shared features.
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Words that belong together
- develop a taxonomy
- taxonomic categories
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The chapter proposes a taxonomy of institutional responses.
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- taxonomy
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Countable or uncountable by context; countable singular taxonomy; plural taxonomies. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.
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