Synonym: implemental, subservient. Similar words: instrumentality, instrumentalist, instrument, musical instrument, installment payment, monumental, installment buying, instruct. Meaning: [‚ɪnstrə'mentl] 
adj. 1. relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments 2. serving or acting as a means or aid.
adj. 1. relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments 2. serving or acting as a means or aid. 
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1 In his first years as chairman he was instrumental in raising the company's wider profile.
2 Technical innovation is instrumental in improving the qualities of products.
3 Chandler was instrumental in making Jackie Robinson the first black player in the major leagues.
4 It is an instrumental work.
5 The neighbours were instrumental in catching the criminal.
6 The last track on the CD is an instrumental.
7 He was instrumental in catching the criminal.
8 He was instrumental in developing links with European organizations.
9 In Polish the verb'to be'takes the instrumental case.
10 He was instrumental in bringing about an end to the conflict.
11 They were highly instrumental in bringing the business to Newtown.
12 She was instrumental in bringing about the prison reform act.
13 Our artistic director was instrumental in persuading the orchestra to come and play for us.
14 Men perform an instrumental role, women an expressive one.
15 Courses can be instrumental or diversionary but not contentious.
16 The CD contains instrumental jazz versions of Gershwin classics.
17 Thereafter,(www.Sentencedict.com) he played only instrumental music.
18 Wavetable sound cards generate more realistic instrumental sounds.
19 Thomson was also prolific in instrumental music on both chamber and solo scale.
20 She was also instrumental in nudging him into giving 25 percent of the positions in the Socialist Party to women.
21 I interviewed the deputy head who had been instrumental in initiating the scheme and gained the school's consent for the study.
22 The music moves from ominous grooves to all-out instrumental pummeling of the listener -- all in the same piece.
23 Yaki, who was instrumental in negotiating the leases as an aide to Rep.
24 Page was instrumental in the creation of the new Mainan ambitious public works project funded through a public-private partnership.
25 Strangely the instrumental chapters are spread throughout the book in no logical order.
26 By and large[sentencedict.com], the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.
27 In forty five enforcement actions brought in 1985 and 1986, informants were instrumental in providing information in fifteen cases.
28 The concentration on arid and glacial regions was probably also partly instrumental in the development of climatic geomorphology.
29 It also gave us the belief, probably misguided, that there are two fundamental learning processes: classical and instrumental conditioning.
30 In fulfilling these aims, specific use of the potential of different aspects of language and of literacy has been instrumental.
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