mainstream

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++main·stream1 /ˈmeɪnstriːm/ ●○○ noun  the mainstream ORDINARYthe most usual ideas or methods, or the people who have these ideas or methods 〔思想或行为的〕主流the mainstream of Environmental ideas have been absorbed into the mainstream of European politics. 环境保护的观点已被纳入欧洲政治的主流。 Genet started as a rebel, but soon became part of the literary mainstream. 热内起初很叛逆，但不久就回归了文学主流。

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mainstream• You know e-mail has gone mainstream when Uncle Sam is developing an electronic postmark to time and date stamp e-mail.

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mainstream2 adjective [only before noun]  SEaccepted by or involving most people in a society 主流的，主要的 Deaf children can often be included in mainstream education. 失聪儿童往往可以被纳入主流教育。 the mainstream political parties 主流政党

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mainstream• Most disabled students are integrated into the mainstream educational system.• After starting out as a romance novelist, she decided to try writing mainstream fiction.• But we know a good deal about the performance of the mainstream media.• The mainstream political parties are losing support to smaller, more radical organizations.mainstream3 verb [transitive]  American English to include a child with physical or mental problems in an ordinary class 把〔有生理缺陷或心理疾病的儿童〕安排到普通班级中，使纳入主流教育 —mainstreaming noun [uncountable]→ See Verb table

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mainstream• If the teacher does not personally judge, label, reject, or pass upon individuals, then mainstreaming can work.• The alert library media specialist will have recognized at once that mainstreaming is, after all, a kind of integration.From Longman Business Dictionarymainstreammain‧stream1 /ˈmeɪnstriːm/ noun1the mainstream of something the most usual way of doing something or thinking about somethingDepression-era laws have kept banks out of the mainstream of financial change.2the mainstream the people whose ideas about a subject are shared by most people and regarded as normalHe told readers he was trying to move the newspaper out of the opposition into the mainstream.mainstreammainstream2 adjective1relating to the most frequent or usual way of doing or thinking about somethingThe company has been selling interests that it considers to be outside its mainstream businesses.The shop now caters for the mainstream market.2suitable for normal people, rather than for a particular section of societyThey made the clothes less high-fashion and more mainstream.

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mainstream

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main‧stream¹ /ˈmeɪnstriːm/ noun
the mainstream the most usual ideas or methods, or the people who have these ideas or methods
    the mainstream of
    Environmental ideas have been absorbed into the mainstream of European politics.
    Genet started as a rebel, but soon became part of the literary mainstream.

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mainstream² adjective [only before noun]
accepted by or involving most people in a society:
    Deaf children can often be included in mainstream education.
    the mainstream political parties

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mainstream³ verb [transitive]
American English to include a child with physical or mental problems in an ordinary class
—mainstreaming noun [uncountable]