- to make (a person or group) subordinate in status to a more dominant group or its members: Though women constitute a majority of employees, they are routinely minoritized, passed over for promotion, and poorly represented in upper management.
- to devalue (a language), often by granting official status and thereby higher prestige to another, competing language in the same community: French policies minoritized the Picard dialect until it was seriously endangered—today it has fewer than 500,000 native speakers.
