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batch

 
 
/bætʃ/ noun [C]

Definition

a group of things or people that are dealt with at the same time or are similar in type: the university's first batch of students Fry the aubergines in batches.
(Definition of batch noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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