discriminationnoun [ U ]
uk/dɪˌskrɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/dɪˌskrɪm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/discrimination noun [ U ] (DIFFERENT TREATMENT)
C1 treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc.:
racial/sex/age discrimination
Until 1986 most companies would not even allow women to take the exams, but such blatant discrimination is now disappearing.
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- AIDS victims often experience social ostracism and discrimination.
- There should be no discrimination on the grounds of colour.
- She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.
- She will be remembered as an unrelenting opponent of racial discrimination.
- The law has done little to prevent racial discrimination and inequality.
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Human rights
- affirmative action
- ageism
- agism
- Amnesty International
- anti-racist
- Bechdel test
- emancipation
- equal opportunity
- equality
- fattist
- feminism
- gay rights
- gender discrimination
- human rights
- inequality
- positive discrimination
- sisterhood
- suffragette
- women's libber
- women's liberation
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Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
discrimination noun [ U ] (SEEING A DIFFERENCE)
formal the ability to see the difference between two things or people
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Wise and sensible
- an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom
- be a victory for common sense idiom
- canny
- discerning
- discriminating
- far-sighted
- gnomic
- legitimacy
- no flies on sb idiom
- no-nonsense
- out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings) idiom
- perspective
- perspicacious
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sage
- savoir-faire
- sensible
- wise
- wisely
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