"subcategorize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sub- + categorize.",
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        "To categorize more specifically by placing in a subcategory."
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        "(transitive) To categorize more specifically by placing in a subcategory."
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          "ref": "1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 421:",
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        "(grammar) To practice subcategorization."
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        "(transitive) To categorize more specifically by placing in a subcategory."
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