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marginar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • marginalize verb To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
  • ostracize verb To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.

Senses

marginar is used for these senses in English:

  • marginalize (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.
  • ostracize (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]

marginalize — full definition

  1. verb To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
  2. verb To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.

ostracize — full definition

  1. verb To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
  2. verb To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.

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