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participatory

participatory

12 5.7
Letting everyone take part and share their views
  • adjective
  • /pɑːrˈtɪsɪpəˌtɔri/
translation icon : participativo
  • Community events are often designed to be participatory, allowing everyone to contribute their ideas.
  • participatory research
  • participatory democracy
  • participatory approach

It's going to be participatory and it's going to be process oriented.

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Examples

  • The political activity of elite Macau Chinese between 1984 and 1988 showed they had a participatory political culture.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Stephanie Farquhar provided useful input on the section that deals with participatory research.

    Academic text (2011)
  • What can we do to increase participatory management in the company? -- 15.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Development and implementation of programs are accomplished through a participatory process.

    Academic text (2011)
  • This is an interactive participatory lecture.

  • Furthermore, there may be opportunities to actively involve local communities in research projects through participatory research.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The course also addresses the participatory nature of U.S. education, time management, and academic dishonesty.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Scholars and professionals frustrated with this top-down method have recommended moving toward a participatory approach.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Stakeholder-based participatory research would also be highly beneficial, as researchers could model strategies that seem plausible to farmers.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The education paradigm, by contrast, is characterized by a cooperative, participatory relationship (Table 2).

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

interactive
vsparticipatory
98 4.0

Allow people to take part and respond, often using technology

encourages every member to take part rather than just communicate
participative
vsparticipatory
1 5.3

Involving many people in a decision or activity

involves all members rather than just many

Antonyms

399 5.4

Only for one person, group, or purpose and not shared

52 4.7

Limits what people can do by rules or laws

How Participatory

collective
240 3.9
participatory
12 5.7
collaborative
49 4.5

Surface Forms

participatory positive

Morphology

participatory = participate (transparent) = participate + ory

The adjective is clearly formed from 'participate' with the productive adjective-forming suffix '-ory', so its meaning ('involving participation') is directly inferable.

Etymology

Participatory comes from the simple idea of part meaning 'a piece' and the verb participate meaning 'to take part'. So something participatory invites people to 'take part' — to join in and help decide or do things together.