A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class;…
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unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; th…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equ…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparit…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society); "the marginalization of the u…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society); "the marginalization of the u…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
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any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.White.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; pro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat ent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Care, heed, or attention.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.A bird.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.of Find
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unfair, treatment, group, basis, prejudice.
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