operationalize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make operational.

   • I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies.
2. 2

   To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.

   • To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.
   • Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise, precisely because we are so good at it.
   • 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.

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