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taxonomy

/tækˈsɒn.ə.mi/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A tree of categories the steering committee approved in March and routed around by April.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A hierarchical classification scheme that arranges concepts into broader and narrower categories with defined membership.

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See also

controlled vocabularyThe aspiration; the practice is mostly the uncontrolled kind, which is why this exists.
hierarchyThe official rollup of the org, redrawn each reorg, never matching the one Finance is actually using.
ontologyThe most rigorous way to model a business while declining to define a single word the business uses today.