Learn English – Is “mainstream” an acceptable verb

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I recently read the word "mainstream" as a verb and doubted whether it was the best choice in the sentence. Can you say you want to "mainstream" something? Perhaps it is grammatical but just unadvisable?

Best Answer

There's nothing technically wrong with "verbing" any noun you feel like, as long as your listeners understand you.

Personally, I tend to consider it a red flag that the speaker doesn't really know what they are talking about, and are trying to cover up that fact by throwing impressive-sounding jargony words at me. So doing that as an attempt to impress me is not liable to work out well for you. But I can't speak for anyone else.