sexual harassment
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- noun
- /ˈsɛkʃuəl ˈhærəsˌmɛnt/
- Offensive
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acoso sexual
- The institution took the complaint of sexual harassment very seriously and launched an investigation.
- workplace sexual harassment
- report sexual harassment
- prevent sexual harassment
After being the victim of sexual harassment, I now distrust men.
- After being the victim of sexual harassment, I now distrust men.
- And they're more likely to be singled out for sexual harassment at school.
- A three judge panel has ruled that it's considered sexual harassment to call men bald at work.
- If I have sex with an employee in VR, is that sexual harassment?
- Food workers face really dangerous working conditions, particularly in meat packing and sexual harassment.
- She later filed a lawsuit in court for sexual harassment against Countrywide and her manager, Leo de Leon.
- Sexual abuse is usually defined to include rape, sexual assault, sexual molestation, sexual harassment, and incest.
- Now, some are pointing out that Ivanka has worked only for her father and therefore would never be the victim of sexual harassment.
- You know, sexual harassment is just a ubiquitous experience in women's lives that we have been socialized to deescalate and to deal with.
- And she said, I personally never really saw racism in the Navy, but sexual harassment was every day.
- When talking to the female staff members he had two modes, sexual harassment or shouting most shifts he managed to make someone cry.
- And, you know, and sexual harassment does happen.
- So there's a couple of different flavours of sexual harassment, let's call it, right?
Examples
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In spite of antidiscrimination laws, sexual harassment in the workplace is still a serious problem.
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The institution "took the complaint of sexual harassment very seriously," it said in a statement.
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At what point does it become sexual harassment?
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Of all of the companies that I went into, none of the women mentioned sexual harassment or sexual assault.
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And the Nigeria Senate began to speak about the the sexual harassment bill.
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But the department has some pretty strict rules on sexual harassment.
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After being the victim of sexual harassment, I now distrust men.
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Its work focuses on how sexual harassment in schools operates as a barrier to equal education.
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Institutional efforts to prevent sexual harassment have been vigorous and sincere, but not totally effective.
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It sounds like the sexual harassment was just running rampant throughout the entire Fox News organization.
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Morphology
The meaning is compositionally transparent: 'sexual' describes the nature of the 'harassment', so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to harassment of a sexual nature. Legal and sociocultural nuances (e.g. power dynamics or workplace-specific definitions) may require further exposure, but the core meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Sexual harassment joins sexual (about sex) and harassment (bothering someone again and again). The image is someone being repeatedly bothered in a sexual way — often by a person with power — so it means 'unwanted sexual behavior that makes someone feel uncomfortable or unsafe'.