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family grouping

British

noun

Also called: vertical grouping. a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work

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He was a stout, cheerful man who refused to borrow trouble, very unlike Morris's mother who always saw sorrow and accident for her family hovering in the near future.

From The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Levinger, Elma Ehrlich

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