1.
one bundle; one group
A physical bundle or group of items tied or gathered together.
髪を一括りにする。
To tie one's hair up in a bundle.
荷物を一括りにして運んだ。
I bundled the luggage together and carried it.
書類を種類ごとに一括りにまとめた。
I organized the documents into bundles by type.
2.
lumping together; treating as one category
The act of grouping different things together and treating them as if they were the same. Often implies an oversimplification.
全部一括りにしないでほしい。
I'd prefer you not lump everything together.
若者を一括りにするのは間違いだ。
It's wrong to lump all young people together.
日本料理と一括りに言っても、地域によって全く違う。
Even though we lump it all together as 'Japanese cuisine,' it varies completely by region.
Composed of 一 (one) + 括り (bundling, tying). Used both literally for physically bundling things and figuratively for categorizing or generalizing. The figurative sense often carries a critical nuance, suggesting that the grouping is too broad or unfair.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 一括りにする: to lump together, to bundle up
- 一括りにまとめる: to gather into one group
- 一括りに言う: to describe collectively
- 一括りにされる: to be lumped together (passive)
SIMILAR WORDS:
- ひとまとめ: gathering together — neutral, without the critical nuance
- 十把一絡げ: lumping together indiscriminately — more explicitly negative, often used as a set phrase