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instrumentalise

instrumentalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of instrumentalize.

Meaning of instrumentalize

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

Forms of instrumentalise

third-person singular presentinstrumentalises
present participleinstrumentalising
past participleinstrumentalised
pastinstrumentalised

Origin of instrumentalise

From instrumental + -ise.

Questions about instrumentalise

What is instrumentalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Instrumentalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of instrumentalize.

Words near instrumentalise in the dictionary

  1. instrumental versions
  2. instrumental width
  3. instrumental widths
  4. instrumentalisation
  5. instrumentalisations
  6. instrumentalise
  7. instrumentalised
  8. instrumentalises
  9. instrumentalising
  10. instrumentalism
  11. instrumentalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: instrumentalise (page history and authors); instrumentalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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