1. To bring something under democratic participation or control.
2. To make something more widely accessible to people rather than limited to a privileged group.
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Words that belong together
- democratize an institution
- democratize decision-making
On the page
The proposal sought to democratize the institution by widening voting rights.
The reform democratized decision-making without equalizing every resource.
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Word forms
- Base
- democratize
- Past tense
- democratized
- Past participle
- democratized
- Present participle
- democratizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- democratize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are democratizing
- Present perfect
- have/has democratized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been democratizing
- Past
- democratized
- Past continuous
- was/were democratizing
- Past perfect
- had democratized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been democratizing
- Future
- will democratize
- Future continuous
- will be democratizing
- Future perfect
- will have democratized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been democratizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: democratize; democratizes; democratized; democratized; democratizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: democratizes.
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