INSTRUMENTAL


Meaning of INSTRUMENTAL in English

(~s)

1.

Someone or something that is ~ in a process or event helps to make it happen.

In his first years as chairman he was ~ in raising the company’s wider profile...

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ in -ing/n

2.

Instrumental music is performed by instruments and not by voices.

...a cassette recording of vocal and ~ music.

ADJ: ADJ n

Instrumentals are pieces of ~ music.

The last track on the CD is an ~.

N-COUNT: usu pl

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