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Sortation or Sorting?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33153points) March 7th, 2018

I was reading something on the Fedex website today and ran across the word “sortation”. As in: “Fedex has 23 sortation centers and 54 distribution warehouses”.

But it seems that “23 sorting centers” would have been a more direct and less high-falutin’ way of saying the same thing.

Is there any difference between ‘sorting’ and ‘sortation’ as descriptive adjectives?

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