lumping together; bundling; grouping as one
Refers to treating multiple distinct items, people, or ideas as a single undifferentiated group, often with a negative nuance of oversimplification. Commonly used with する to mean 'to lump together'.
You shouldn't lump various opinions together.
He lumped the complex issues together.
Standard kanji spelling. The reading ひとくくり is unambiguous.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji is not needed.
Search-only form; not a standard written variant.
Compound of 一 (ひと, 'one') and 括り (くくり, 'bundle' or 'grouping'), from the verb 括る (くくる, 'to tie up' or 'to bundle'). The literal meaning is 'one bundle', extended to the abstract sense of treating things as a single group.