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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)
- (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 […]
- (music, transitive) To transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice
Antonyms
Translations
make into an instrument for achieving a goal
transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice
Galician
Verb
instrumentalize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of instrumentalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
instrumentalize
- inflection of instrumentalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative