| Main Entry: | instrumentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contribution |
Synonyms: |
agency, aid, assistance, help, means |
| Concept: | Instrumentality. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
instrumentality; aid; subservience, subserviency; mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand; agency., minister, handmaid; midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician; go-between; cat's-paw; stepping-stone., key; masterkey, passkey, latchkey; "open sesame"; passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct., instrument; expedient (plan); means.
-verbs
subserve, minister, mediate, intervene; be instrumental; pander to; officiate; tend.
-adjectives
instrumental; useful; ministerial, subservient, mediatorial; intermediate, intervening; conducive.
-adverbs
through, by, per; whereby, thereby, hereby; by the agency of; by dint of; by virtue of, in virtue of; through the medium of; along with; on the shoulders of; by means of; by the aid of, with the aid of (assistance) [more]., per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul; somehow, somehow or other; by hook or by crook.
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| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means |
Synonyms: |
agency, agent, approach, avenue, course, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, medium, ministry, organ, route, vehicle, way |
| Main Entry: | expedient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resource |
Synonyms: |
contrivance, device, gency, instrument, instrumentality, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, medium, method, recourse, refuge, resort, scheme, shift, stopgap, stratagem, substitute |
| Main Entry: | factor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determinant |
Synonyms: |
agency, agent, aid, antecedent, aspect, board, cause, circumstance, component, consideration, constituent, element, fixin's, influence, ingredient, instrument, instrumentality, item, makin's, means, part, part and parcel, point, portion, thing |
| Main Entry: | instrument |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, agent |
Synonyms: |
agency, channel, factor, force, instrumentality, material, mechanism, medium, ministry, organ, vehicle, wherewithal |
Antonyms: |
end |
| Main Entry: | means |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, method |
Synonyms: |
agency, agent, aid, apparatus, auspices, avenue, channel, course, dodge*, equipment, expedient, factor, fashion, gimmick, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, machinery, manner, measure, mechanism, medium, ministry, mode, modus operandi, organ, organization, paraphernalia, path, power, process, road, route, step, stepping-stone, system, tactic, technique, trick, vehicle, ways and means |
| Main Entry: | medium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, mode |
Synonyms: |
agency, agent, avenue, channel, clairvoyant, factor, form, instrument, instrumentality, intermediate, measure, mechanism, ministry, organ, psychic, seer, tool, vehicle, way |
| Main Entry: | operation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, working |
Synonyms: |
act, action, activity, affair, agency, application, ballgame, bit, carrying on, conveyance, course, deal, deed, doing, effect, effort, employment, engagement, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, force, handiwork, happening, influence, instrumentality, labor, manipulation, motion, movement, performance, play, procedure, proceeding, process, progress, progression, scene, service, transaction, transference, trip, undertaking, use, work, workmanship |
Antonyms: |
idleness, inaction, inutility, uselessness |