operationalize

verb2

1. •
   To make operational.

   • I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies. — 1981
2. •
   To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.

   • To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed. — 1956