To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.
To put aside, to not act on (proposals, suggestions, advice).
Origin
pigeon + hole. Originally literal hole for pigeons, later similar compartments for paper, then extended metaphorically in verb sense of narrowly categorizing or deferring.
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