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🌊 The usual trend ➡️ To make standard
to mainstream

to mainstream

4 4.6
To include something in the usual activities of a group
  • verb
  • /ˈmeɪnˌstrim/
translation icon : integrar en
  • I think they've been remarkably successful in that, in helping to mainstream libertarian ideas.
  • mainstreaming gender
  • mainstreaming students
  • mainstreaming children

All right, next we're going to cover more of his unhinged ramblings and fascist ideas that he is trying to mainstream.

Examples

  • Roueche and Roueche (1999) have reported that the majority of community colleges across the country mainstream their developmental education programs.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Mainstreaming this synthesis of librarianship and schooling enables school librarians to be creative formers of this new vision.

    Academic text (2013)

  • I am amazed by how well they have been able to mainstream their message.

    Blog text (19)

  • If you teach regular PE, do you regularly mainstream into your regular classes?

    Academic text (1992)

  • "We wanted our children at home and felt mainstreaming to be important."

    Academic text (2001)

  • In fact, music teachers were among the original participants in the mainstreaming movement.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Her values are in place; she just needs some guidance concerning the techniques of mainstreaming.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Most recognizably, the film "An Inconvenient Truth" helped mainstream the issue of climate change.

    Blog text (4)

  • The primary purpose of the social intervener is to mainstream alienated youths.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The organization aims to mainstream mental health awareness in schools to support students better.

Synonyms

to institutionalize
vsto mainstream
  • US
16 7.1

Make something a regular and accepted part of a system or group

is about introducing it into normal operations across institutions or society
to conventionalize
vsto mainstream
7.5

To make something follow the usual rules or styles used by a group

focuses on integrating it into normal operations of institutions or society

Antonyms

to marginalize
  • US
81 7.4

Treat a person or group as unimportant and push them aside

Compounds

mainstream society
3 3.4

The ideas and rules most people in a place accept

mainstream discussion
2.9

Public talk that most people know and accept

How Widespread

to mainstream
4 4.6
to implement
515 3.7
to adopt
440 3.2

Surface Forms

mainstream infinitive
mainstreamed past
mainstreamed past participle
mainstreaming present participle
mainstreams third person singular

Morphology

mainstream = mainstream (semi-transparent) = main + stream

The verb is formed by converting the noun 'mainstream', but its meaning is a metaphorical extension that is not fully predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Mainstream uses the same image as a verb: to put something into the main 'most common' stream 'flow' of society or an organisation. So to mainstream a policy or practice is to make it part of normal, everyday use.