instrumentality

1. 1.

   a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose

   “are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?”

   “he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement”

   Broaderunit

   Part ofgovernment department
2. 2.

   the quality of being instrumental for some purpose

   Broaderutility
3. 3.

   an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end

   Synonymsinstrumentation

   Broaderartifact

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Other forms of instrumentality

plural

instrumentalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about instrumentality

What does instrumentality mean?

instrumentality means "a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instrumentality?

instrumentality has 6 syllables: in-stru-men-tal-i-ty. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /ˌɪnstɹəmɛnˈtælɪti/.

What is another word for instrumentality?

Close synonyms include instrumentation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is instrumentality a common word?

instrumentality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with instrumentality?

4 words rhyme with instrumentality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.