instrumentally
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- adverb
- /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəli/
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- Negative liberty is of value, if only instrumentally so.
- instrumentally valuable
- act instrumentally
They want you to help them instrumentally, help them figure out how to solve a problem.
- They want you to help them instrumentally, help them figure out how to solve a problem.
- By contrast, Socrates intrinsically valuable, instrumentally valuable, both.
- And one way to take that is instrumentally.
Examples
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In this sense, social movement political practice, organization, and mobilization are assumed to be instrumentally oriented toward achieving change by transforming capitalism or the formal political institutions situated within the "container" of the nation-state.
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They want you to help them instrumentally, help them figure out how to solve a problem.
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Yes, and just because I am of the place and time to, if nothing else, see that as instrumentally a good thing.
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The things that are valuable as a means, we can say are instrumentally valuable.
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The likelihood of environmental resources being used instrumentally in conflict resolution has increased in recent years.
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The technology employed in the classroom is understood instrumentally as a means of acquiring the "right" knowledge.
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Right action is that which instrumentally satisfies the self's needs and occasionally others.
Academic text (1995) -
However, these most recent dam projects in Kashmir raise some potential prospects for using the agreement more instrumentally in resolving the Kashmir dispute.
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On the instrumental theory, people are treated equally when the differentiating trait is instrumentally useful in advancing an end that the government can legitimately pursue.
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The new training program was designed instrumentally to help employees achieve their performance goals.
Synonyms
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In a way that gives help or useful information
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In a way that helps reach a goal
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In a way that brings the wanted result
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In a way that works well and gives the needed result
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In a way that helps and makes things better
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In a way that helps cause something
In a way that gets the result you want
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Surface Forms
Morphology
instrumentally = instrumental (semi-transparent) = instrument + al + ly
The adverb is formed from 'instrumental' by '-ly', but the meaning 'serving as a means' is a metaphorical extension from the physical sense of 'instrument', so the relation is not purely literal.
Etymology
Instrumentally comes from instrument, meaning 'tool', so it can also mean acting 'as a means' or 'as a help' to make something happen; that's why someone who is instrumental or acting instrumentally can be very important to a project's success.