minoritize en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /maɪˈnɒ.ɹɪ.taɪz/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From minority + -ize.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |