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marginalize
[ mahr-juh-nl-ahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to place in a position of minor or marginal importance, significance, relevance, or effect:
The government is attempting to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- to isolate or exclude from the dominant culture; perceive or treat as being on the fringes of a society or group:
All of these policies have marginalized our vulnerable sisters and brothers for their religion, skin color, or sexual orientation.
marginalize
/ ˈɑːɪəˌɪ /
verb
- tr to relegate to the fringes, out of the mainstream; make seem unimportant
various economic assumptions marginalize women
Derived Forms
- ˌԲˈپDz, noun
Other Word Forms
- ·····پDz [mahr-j, uh, -nl-ahy-, zey, -sh, uh, n] especially British, ·····پDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of marginalize1
Example Sentences
Costume designer Celeste Jennings illustrates their differences through clothing choices that reflect Sade’s more marginalized status and Mina’s more assimilated reality.
The city may end up spending more on lawsuits filed by firefighters from marginalized groups, she said.
As a function of the race-wealth gap, African-Americans, Hispanics and Latinos, Native Americans and members of other marginalized communities have even less in savings than the average white American.
“My intention was to show people the courage it takes to be a person who’s been marginalized and to still love yourself,” said López over a Zoom call.
“How much contempt is stirred up at times toward the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants!” he said in his Easter address, shortly before his death.
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