instrumentalize

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English

Etymology

From instrumental +‎ -ize.

Verb

instrumentalize (third-person singular simple present instrumentalizes, present participle instrumentalizing, simple past and past participle instrumentalized)

  1. (transitive) To make into an instrument for achieving a goal.
    • 2002, Katrin Sieg, Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany:
      [] they also instrumentalize race to reinstate nostalgic, vanguard notions of political activism []
  2. (music, transitive) To transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice

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Translations

Galician

Verb

instrumentalize

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of instrumentalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

instrumentalize

  1. inflection of instrumentalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative