"operationalize" meaning in All languages combined

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "operationalizability"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "operationalizable"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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  "etymology_text": "From operational + -ize.",
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      "form": "operationalizes",
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    },
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      "word": "operational definition"
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:",
          "text": "I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies.",
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        "To make operational."
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        "(transitive) To make operational."
      ],
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "1956, Ernest Greenwood, “New Directions in Delinquency Research: A Commentary on a Study by Bernard Lander”, in Social Service Review, volume 30, number 2, page 152:",
          "text": "To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review, number 399:",
          "text": "Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise, precisely because we are so good at it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured."
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        "(transitive, social sciences) To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured."
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɒpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)nəlʌɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑpəˈɹeɪʃənəˌlaɪz/",
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    "operationalization"
  ],
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          "ref": "1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:",
          "text": "I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies.",
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        }
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        "To make operational."
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        "(transitive) To make operational."
      ],
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          "text": "To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review, number 399:",
          "text": "Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise, precisely because we are so good at it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:",
          "text": "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.",
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˌɑpəˈɹeɪʃənəˌlaɪz/",
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