victimisation
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Subjecting a person to a detriment because they have brought or supported a discrimination complaint.
Denying her a reference after she gave evidence for a colleague amounted to victimisation.
Business noun
The unfair treatment of an employee as a reprisal for asserting a legal right or raising a complaint.
Punishing her for filing a grievance would amount to unlawful victimisation.
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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