participate
to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits;to participate in a play.
Archaic. to take or have a part or share in; partake in; share.
Origin of participate
1synonym study For participate
Other words from participate
- par·tic·i·pat·ing·ly, adverb
- par·tic·i·pa·tive, adjective
- par·tic·i·pa·tive·ly, adverb
- par·tic·i·pa·tor, noun
- par·tic·i·pa·to·ry [pahr-tis-uh-puh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /pɑrˈtɪs ə pəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
- un·par·tic·i·pat·ed, adjective
- un·par·tic·i·pat·ing, adjective
- un·par·tic·i·pa·tive, adjective
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How to use participate in a sentence
In return, all participating countries were promised that when that day came, they’d get equal access to the vaccine.
Who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first? Ethicists are fiercely debating how to vaccinate billions of people. | Sigal Samuel | November 20, 2020 | VoxSimilarly, we focused in on misinformation around what we call civic integrity, which is about people having the ability to know how to participate in elections.
EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation | Tate Ryan-Mosley | November 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn 2014, Abrams, then a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, co-created a group called the New Georgia Project that focused on getting people of color in the state who haven’t previously participated in the electoral process to vote.
How Georgia Turned Blue | Perry Bacon Jr. (perry.bacon@fivethirtyeight.com) | November 18, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightHe has gone to meetings, participated in discussions and voted on public policy.
Despite New Removal Process, Beiser Likely to Stay on School Board | Will Huntsberry | November 17, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoEdward Aguilar just turned 17, which means he was ineligible to vote on November 3 and can’t participate in the upcoming runoffs either.
The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote | Tanya Basu | November 15, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.
Participatory mapping, it would seem, takes on a new meaning in this context.
The Warsaw-based Althamer specializes in setting up participatory situations like this one.
Pawel Althamer Creates Art That’s by the People, for the People at the New Museum | Jessica Dawson | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
How a Tweet Can Beat a PAC: Social Media Gives Voters Muscle in Politics | Mark McKinnon | April 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe committees boldly experimented with participatory forms of government at the local level.
A different design can change the structure of communication and introduce participatory elements.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinThat the local authorities of the Government are cognisant, and participatory in this system.
The Crime of the Congo | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for participate
/ (pɑːˈtɪsɪˌpeɪt) /
(intr often foll by in) to take part, be or become actively involved, or share (in)
Origin of participate
1Derived forms of participate
- participant, adjective, noun
- participation, noun
- participator, noun
- participatory, adjective
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