Meaning of operationalize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make operational.
   transitive
2. To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies.”

“To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.”

“Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise, precisely because we are so good at it.”

“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.”

CEFR level