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affirmative action

/ə'fɜrmətɪv_'ækʃən/

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noun
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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"affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"

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social action

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