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minoritize en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /maɪˈnɒ.ɹɪ.taɪz/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From minority + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make or treat as a minority.
    • A commentary on how the media and the culture have distorted and minoritized the lives of people with AIDS. 1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
    • Resistance implies that there is something to resist. More often than not, these politics have resisted forms of power that majoritize and minoritize subjects and are frequently situated in binaries: […] 2016, David V. Ruffolo, Post-Queer Politics:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
minoritized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
minoritized Tense=Past lexicographic
minoritizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
minoritise alternative lexicographic
minoritizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

majoritize

Deriveds

minoritization

Synonyms

marginalize