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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION noun

Definition of affirmative action (noun)

  1. a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
    • "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"
Source: Princeton University Wordnet
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