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especially: to make a difference in treatment on a basis prohibited by law (as national origin, race, sex, religion, age, or disability) see also bona fide occupational qualification, equal protection, reverse discrimination, suspect class, Civil Rights Act of 1964
to treat 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 race, gender, sexuality, etc.: be discriminated against She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age.
Discriminate definition: to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality. See examples of DISCRIMINATE used in a sentence.
To discriminate against a group of people or in favour of a group of people means to unfairly treat them worse or better than other groups.
separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation. discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood. separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others. place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons.
discriminate (against somebody) | discriminate (in favour of somebody) practices that discriminate against women and in favour of men; discriminate on the grounds of something It is illegal to discriminate on the grounds of race, gender or religion.
to treat 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 race, gender, sexuality, etc.: be discriminated against She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age.
