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/əsˈɔrtmənt/ Listen

noun

Assortment n.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.

A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

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Etymology of 'Assortment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assortment" Quotes from Famous Books

... Doyle. Ye have a keen understandin' o' what is good yerself; but ye'll be sure to name the compact with Bennet," cautioned Nancy, as she counted out fifty dollars from her assortment ...

— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer

... republics of the former USSR. Lithuania benefits from its ice-free port at Klaipeda on the Baltic Sea and its rail and highway hub at Vilnius, which provides land communication between Eastern Europe and Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Belarus. Industry produces a small assortment of high-quality products, ranging from complex machine tools to sophisticated consumer electronics. Because of nuclear power, Lithuania is presently self-sufficient in electricity, exporting its surplus to Latvia and Belarus; the nuclear facilities inherited from the USSR, ...

— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Pacifists; the "Peoples' Council," as they called themselves. Many of these were religious people, two or three clergymen, and Donald Gordon, the Quaker, and a varied assortment of women—sentimental young girls who shrunk from the thought of bloodshed, and mothers with tear-stained cheeks who did not want their darlings to be drafted. Peter saw right away that these mothers had no "conscientious objections." Each mother was thinking about her ...

— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair

... car drew up at the edge of the parking space, our young man beheld a wide assortment of sporting events spread before his eyes. The players disported themselves with enthusiasm, for there was now a soft coolness in the air. But the scars of a brutal summer still showed, in the turf that was burnt brown ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... Pulcifer clutch if withdrawal had been possible. It being quite impossible, he murmured that he was—"ah—quite well" and, conscious that the eyes of Mr. Beebe and his two customers were fixed upon him, fixed his own gaze upon Mr. Pulcifer's assortment of watch charms and shivered ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

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