- 1a number of people or things that are dealt with as a group Each summer a new batch of students tries to find work. He worked his way through the batch of letters on his desk. We deliver the goods in batches.
Definitions on the go
Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
- 2an amount of food, medicine, etc. produced at one time a batch of cookies loaves of bread baked in batches of 20 It is necessary to make new batches of flu vaccine whenever a different, virulent strain of flu makes an appearance.
- 3(computing) a set of jobs that are processed together on a computer to process a batch job a batch file/program
Check pronunciation: batch