to marginalize
81
7.4
- verb
- /ˈmɑrdʒɪnəˌlaɪz/
- US
:
marginalizar
- Similarly, are African American students in her class being marginalized by only being the focus during the month of February?
- marginalized groups
- marginalized people
- marginalized populations
And I, I want people that are marginalized to stop being marginalized.
- And I, I want people that are marginalized to stop being marginalized.
- That's just it's just marginalizing the most marginalized members of the community.
- The age of the tribe will continue to be marginalised by the era of the network.
- Because so many girls like me have been disenfranchised and marginalised and silenced by those in power.
- People who have been marginalized have often had to carve out a space for themselves.
- And so understanding that, yeah, you want to fight for the people that are being marginalized.
- Disparate impact among groups, especially group that has been historically marginalized in the United States, is also a problem.
- I think the paradox is this, this is sort of heresy, but they call who they're calling marginalised aren't marginalised.
- So it it encompasses everything else interesting that are marginalized, right?
Examples
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Now she's a woman north of 35 in a business that marginalizes women at any age.
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Curtis thinks your ideas would marginalize us.
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It's more about marginalizing groups that might speak that way.
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The majority of the population had been marginalized and forced out of the commerce in areas.
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The pressure to succeed economically will make effective care for marginalized people and the despoiled environment extremely difficult.
Academic text (1991) -
As a woman in a male-defined society, her numerous and varied contributions were marginalized and, with time, forgotten.
Fiction book (1993) -
The pension system marginalizes part-time workers by not requiring companies to include them in pension plans.
Academic text (1991) -
She's been the motivating force fighting back on all local legislation trying to marginalize and criminalize homelessness.
Academic text (2011) -
He consistently stood up for the mistreated and the marginalized.
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The policy should not marginalize any group in our community, as everyone deserves to be heard.
Synonyms
89
4.7
Make a person or thing seem less important
45
5.0
To make someone or something seem not important
31
7.7
To leave someone out of a group on purpose
28
7.0
Make something seem less important or serious
24
7.5
Treat someone as shameful and not worthy of respect
1
9.8
Force a group to live in a poor, separate area and feel cut off
1
5.7
To force someone out of a group so others avoid them
Antonyms
How Marginalized
107
6.3
- US
31
7.7
- US
81
7.4
332
3.0
∞
1.0
243
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word marginalize comes from margin, which means 'edge', like the edge of a page. To marginalize someone is to push them to the 'edge' of a group or society and treat them as unimportant.