cohort
a group or company: She has a cohort of admirers.
a companion or associate.
one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
any group of soldiers or warriors.
an accomplice; abettor: He got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece.
a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic: the cohort of all children born in 1980.
Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.
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How to use cohort in a sentence
Forage did not disclose efficacy information, but said that “some” corporate partners hired up to 52% of the cohort from their programs.
Forage, formerly InsideSherpa, raises $9.3 million Series A for virtual work experiences | Natasha Mascarenhas | September 17, 2020 | TechCrunchCore to the WSJ’s digital ad buoyancy is its cohort of business-to-business advertiser clients.
‘Without the luxury of time’: The Wall Street Journal rolls out new products for the fast-tempo ad market | Lucinda Southern | September 15, 2020 | DigidayNot only that, in deferring to the women in their lives, these investors weren’t even consulting the right demographic cohorts.
‘How I Built This’ host Guy Raz on insights from some of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs | Rachel King | September 15, 2020 | FortuneWhat we can say with confidence is that software shares are in a technical correction, and other equities cohorts that we care about are not far behind.
Stocks are selling off again, and SaaS shares are taking the biggest lumps | Alex Wilhelm | September 4, 2020 | TechCrunchSo, DTC startups are looking to capitalize on the exponential growth they are seeing right now by trying to figure out how they can better cater to this new cohort of Covid customers.
After record sales, DTC startups are focusing on retention | Anna Hensel | September 4, 2020 | Digiday
Good luck finding that cohort of “naïve” participants, noble goal though that it is.
The middle cohort of those voters—Americans in their twenties—were alive during the 1990s, but not politically aware.
Monica Who-insky? Why Clinton Attacks Won't Work this Time | Jamelle Bouie | February 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCan a group of establishment senators break him, as a previous cohort, led by Margaret Chase Smith, broke Joe McCarthy?
It is mostly this same cohort - 18 to 24 year olds - who buy and play war games.
Here was a cohort, after all, that grew up thinking that it could, and would, change the world.
It must have covered about eighty acres, and was garrisoned by the first cohort of Vetasii from Brabant.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver BevanBetween and among all which masses flows without limit Saint-Antoine and the Menadic cohort.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsAn elevator took the determined Persis and her cohort up to another thronged vestibule.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesAs soon as they descried the army which was approaching, they threw themselves on those which were at the head of the cohort.
The Insect World | Louis FiguierPretorie, s. the Roman imperial body-guard, the Pretorian cohort, B 1.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 (of 7) -- Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes | Geoffrey Chaucer
British Dictionary definitions for cohort
/ (ˈkəʊhɔːt) /
one of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion
any band of warriors or associates: the cohorts of Satan
mainly US an associate or follower
biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants)
statistics a group of people with a statistic in common, esp having been born in the same year
Origin of cohort
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