Operationalize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɒpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)nəlʌɪz/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Operationalize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make operational.
Meaning
(transitive) To make operational.
More Meanings
- (transitive, social sciences) To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.
Example Sentences
I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies.
Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise, precisely because we are so good at it.
To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.
General vocabulary is often defined as a common core of English words and operationalized as the most frequent words in a balanced and representative corpus of English.
Word Forms
- operationalizes
- operationalizing
- operationalized
- operationalise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include operational, practise, initiate, operate, incorporate, realize.
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