AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affirmative action mean? 

• AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (noun)
  The noun AFFIRMATIVE ACTION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

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

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

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