| 单词 | zip code lottery | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaszip code lottery   U.S. As a modifier, designating something influenced or determined by a person's locality or postal address, chiefly with reference to the unequal provision of health care, education, etc.; esp. in figurative phrase  zip code lottery; cf. postcode n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1979    Credit Card Redlining: Hearings before Subcomm. on Consumer Affairs 		(U.S. Senate, 96th Congr., 1st Sess.)	 21  				It is our contention that ZIP code discrimination..has the practical effect of discriminating on the basis of race, given the essentially segregated nature of housing in Atlanta. 2000    N.Y. Times 17 July  b5/4  				You lost the ZIP code lottery and now your chances of dying are three times higher because you were born here. 2017    Chicago Daily Herald 		(Nexis)	 13 May  				Students are essentially forced to play a zip code lottery that determines whether they learn in a classroom equipped with an iPad for every student or one where students share decades-old textbooks. < as lemmas  | 
	
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