PIGEONHOLE

[noun] [C] - one of a set of small boxes, open at the front, in which letters and messages are left for different people, esp. in an office or hotelLeave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.A letter for Mr Redding? Look in the pigeonhole for 'R'.Joe wants me to check his pigeonhole in the department on my way home (= to see if there's anything in it).(usually disapproving) If you put someone or something in a pigeonhole or put people or things in pigeonholes you make a (too) quick, simple or general decision about what they are like, what they need etc..You shouldn't try to put me in a neat pigeonhole - see me as an individual.French manufacturers used to put their cars in tight social pigeonholes - Renaults, for example, were working-class cars.