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minoritise

minoritise is the alternative spelling of minoritize.

Meaning of minoritize

Verb

minoritize (third-person singular simple present minoritizes, present participle minoritizing, simple past and past participle minoritized)

  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
    Synonyms:
    marginalize
    Antonyms:
    majoritize

Forms of minoritise

third-person singular presentminoritises
present participleminoritising
past participleminoritised
pastminoritised

Origin of minoritise

From minority + -ise.

Questions about minoritise

What is minoritise the alternative spelling of?
Minoritise is the alternative spelling of minoritize.

Words near minoritise in the dictionary

  1. minoritarians
  2. minoritary
  3. minorite
  4. minorites
  5. minorities
  6. minoritise
  7. minoritised
  8. minoritises
  9. minoritising
  10. minoritization
  11. minoritizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minoritise (page history and authors); minoritize (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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