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adverse impacts

adverse impacts is the plural of adverse impact.

Meaning of adverse impact

Noun

adverse impact (plural adverse impacts)

  1. The rejection for employment, placement, or promotion of a significantly higher percentage of a protected class, when compared with a non-protected class.

Questions about adverse impacts

What is adverse impacts the plural of?
Adverse impacts is the plural of adverse impact.

Words near adverse impacts in the dictionary

  1. adverse effect
  2. adverse effects
  3. adverse event
  4. adverse events
  5. adverse impact
  6. adverse impacts
  7. adverse interest
  8. adverse interest rule
  9. adverse interests
  10. adverse parties
  11. adverse party

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