AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities

Example:

affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("affirmative action" is a kind of...):

social action (a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform))

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