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profilingpro‧fil‧ing /ˈprəʊfaɪlɪŋ $ ˈproʊ-/ noun [uncountable]  - But the method proposed goes hand in hand with the method of assessing individuals by profiling.
- Many schools are now looking at the whole issue of profiling and records of achievement.
- The third is for companies to acquire software for profiling, cross-analysing and clustering the census variables against their own customer records.
- These applications include customer profiling, the analysis of retail catchment areas, sales forecasting and retail branch siting.
1 offender profiling British English the process of studying a crime, especially a murder, and making judgments about the character of the person who committed it2American English when people who belong to a particular race or group are stopped and searched, for example by the police or at airports, because the police think that they are more likely to commit crimes: racial profiling3when companies collect information about people that they wish to sell something to |