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discriminatory

adjective/dɪˈskrɪmɪnətəri/

B2CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Treating a person less favourably on grounds of a protected characteristic.

A dress code that penalised only female staff was found to be indirectly discriminatory.

Similar: prejudicial, biased

Topic: Employment law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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