racial discrimination
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- noun
- /ˈreɪʃəl ˌdɪskrɪməˈneɪʃən/
- Offensive
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discriminación racial
- In the twilight of the Golden Age, the policy of racial discrimination was frankly breaking down.
- blatant racial discrimination
- evidence of racial discrimination
- experience of racial discrimination
Hold on, does Chief Justice Roberts really think the Civil War eliminated racial discrimination?
- Hold on, does Chief Justice Roberts really think the Civil War eliminated racial discrimination?
- We win on all of our claims, our racial discrimination claims and our free election clause claims.
Examples
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In today's headlines, Rutgers professor Tarik Jackson and attorney Nathaniel Banks are suing the state of New Jersey for racial discrimination and police brutality.
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Actors and their guild, SAG, challenged racial discrimination in the motion picture industry.
Academic text (2012) -
At the moment, whereas there is a law against racial discrimination, there is no law against religious discrimination.
Academic text (1997) -
The War Department's announcement to end racial discrimination was followed by a relatively slow implementation.
Academic text (2015) -
In other words, the nationalist government employed culture as a tool of racial discrimination.
Academic text (1996) -
There is no evidence of current racial discrimination against blacks by college admissions offices.
Academic text (1996) -
African Americans were unable to overcome the wider results of racial discrimination in cities like Pittsburgh.
Academic text (1994) -
The American Creed has ideal values that present a dilemma regarding racial discrimination.
Academic text (2017) -
The advisory was based on incidents of racial discrimination and abuse that had grown rampant throughout the state.
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Many employees filed complaints about racial discrimination in the workplace after a recent training session.
Synonyms
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Unfair treatment of people because of their race, age, or sex
Antonyms
How Discriminatory
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- Offensive
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'unfair or prejudicial treatment based on race' is directly and compositionally derived from 'racial' (relating to race) modifying 'discrimination' (unjust treatment). This adjective + noun combination follows standard semantic composition and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Racial discrimination shows a simple, strong picture: someone being treated worse just because of their racial background or skin. The word discrimination means treating people unfairly, so the phrase means 'unfair treatment of people because of their race'.