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affirmative action
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun affirmative action has 1 sense
- affirmative action(n = noun.communication) Array - a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision" is a kind of social action
CIDE DICTIONARY
affirmative action, n.
a policy of making active efforts to improve the employment or educational opportunities available to members of minority groups or women; -- achieved by employers or schools by using various techniques, but excluding the use of simple quotas or outright discrimination against white males.
"affirmative action is required by law for certain employers in the United States."
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