"marginalize" meaning in English

See marginalize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: marginalizes [present, singular, third-person], marginalizing [participle, present], marginalized [participle, past], marginalized [past]
Etymology: From marginal + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|marginal|ize}} marginal + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} marginalize (third-person singular simple present marginalizes, present participle marginalizing, simple past and past participle marginalized)
  1. (transitive) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise. Tags: transitive Translations (relegate something to margins or to a lower limit): 邊緣化 (Chinese Mandarin), 边缘化 (biānyuánhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), marginalisere (Danish), marginaliseren (Dutch), syrjäyttää (Finnish), marginaliser (French), marginalisieren (German), exkludieren (German), περιθωριοποιώ (perithoriopoió) (Greek), emarginare (Italian), 疎外する (sogai suru) (Japanese), marginalizować [imperfective] (Polish), marginalizovať (Slovak), marginar (Spanish), маргіналізува́ти (marhinalizuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-marginalize-en-verb-EHqSsbs6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'relegate something to margins or to a lower limit': 80 20
  2. (mathematics) To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution. Categories (topical): Mathematics, Probability theory
    Sense id: en-marginalize-en-verb-PNd5bvbb Disambiguation of Probability theory: 28 72 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 39 61 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 40 60 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: alienate, invisibilize, peripheralize, marginalise [British] Related terms: marginal, marginalization, marginalize out

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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