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marginalisation

noun

C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The process of pushing a group to the edges of society and denying it full participation.

The policy deepened the marginalisation of the indigenous community.

Similar: exclusion

Topic: Human rights 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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