mainstreams
- 1Third-person singular simple present of mainstream.
The district mainstreams students with disabilities alongside their peers in standard classrooms.
A good editor mainstreams niche ideas until a wider audience accepts them.
Note
The verb behind this form works two ways. With an object, someone mainstreams an idea and carries it toward broad acceptance. Without one, an idea mainstreams on its own as it becomes common. In American schooling it has a narrower use: a district mainstreams a disabled student into ordinary classes. The same spelling also serves as the plural of the noun, the main currents of a river, so a following object marks the verb.
mainstreams is a form of mainstream
mainstream, verb: To make an idea, product, or practice widely popular and accepted. Full entry
- Forms
- mainstreammainstreams he/she/itmainstreaming -ing formmainstreamed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- mainstream → mainstreams: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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