batch Definition

batch¹
noun

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

Example: a batch of loaves
Example: saw another batch of applicants today
Thesaurus: lot, bunch, group, shipment, load, increment.
2a. In banking: a number of credit items and the corresponding debit items listed to ensure that the totals of each agree;
2b. In banking:the process of listing and agreeing the items in such a batch.

Example: This cheque hasn't been through the batch yet
Form: the batch

verb batched, batching

1. To arrange or treat something in batches.
2. computing.
To deal with (data) by batch processing.

Etymology: 15c as bache, meaning ‘a baking' or ‘a quantity of bread baked in one baking', from Anglo-Saxon bacan to bake.

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batch²
verb

(Austral & NZ)
intr
batched, batching
1. colloq
Said of a man: to cook and clean, etc for himself.

Etymology: 19c: from bach short for bachelor.