operationalize
/ˌɑpəˈɹeɪʃənəˌlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos Proto-Italic *opos Latin opus Latin opera Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin operātusbf. Latin operor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin operātiōder. Old French operacionbor. Middle English operacioun English operation English -al English operational Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English operationalize From operational + -ize.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɑpəˈɹeɪʃənəˌlaɪz/
- British English: /ɒpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)nəlʌɪz/