| NOUN | communication | affirmative action | a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities |
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| Meaning | A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities. | |
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| Example | "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision" | |
| Broader | social action | A social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) |
| Spanish | acción afirmativa | |
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