MEANING
To define an abstract concept using observable or measurable procedures or indicators.
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Words that belong together
- operationalize a concept
- operationalize trust
- operationalize the variable
On the page
The study operationalizes participation as meeting attendance.
Researchers must explain how they operationalize social trust.
Different ways to operationalize poverty can produce different estimates.
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Word forms
- Base
- operationalize / operationalizes
- Past tense
- operationalized
- Past participle
- operationalized
- Present participle
- operationalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- operationalize / operationalizes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are operationalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has operationalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been operationalizing
- Past
- operationalized
- Past continuous
- was/were operationalizing
- Past perfect
- had operationalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been operationalizing
- Future
- will operationalize / operationalizes
- Future continuous
- will be operationalizing
- Future perfect
- will have operationalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been operationalizing
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Common in research methodology. Explains how a concept will be investigated, not merely how an organization will operate. operationalize; operationalizes; operationalized; operationalized; operationalizing. British variant: operationalise. Related noun: operationalization.
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