Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
[disapproval]
...projects aimed at tackling unemployment and social exclusion.
social exclusion in British English
noun
the failure of society to provide certain individuals and groups with those rights and benefits normally available to its members, such as employment, adequate housing, health care, education and training, etc
Examples of 'social exclusion' in a sentence
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`She means the odd sunny one,' explained Luke, alive to the dangers of social exclusion.
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