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discriminatee

discriminatee noun: one who is the subject of discrimination.

Noun

discriminatee (plural discriminatees)

  1. One who is the subject of discrimination.
    • As employees of SG Construction, the 12 nonalleged discriminatees received the same rates of pay as they had received as employees of Summit Express.2008, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 609
    • The first, harm-based account holds (roughly) that discrimination is morally bad when and to the extent that it brings about harm to the discriminatee or others.2023, Frej Klem Thomsen, “No Disrespect—But That Account Does Not Explain What Is Morally Bad About Discrimination”, in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, volume 23, number 3, page 42

Forms of discriminatee

pluraldiscriminatees

Origin of discriminatee

From discriminate + -ee.

Questions about discriminatee

What does discriminatee mean?
Discriminatee means one who is the subject of discrimination.
What part of speech is discriminatee?
Discriminatee is a noun.
What is the plural of discriminatee?
The plural of discriminatee is discriminatees.

Words near discriminatee in the dictionary

  1. discriminants
  2. discriminatable
  3. discriminate
  4. discriminated
  5. discriminated-against
  6. discriminatee
  7. discriminatees
  8. discriminately
  9. discriminateness
  10. discriminates
  11. discriminating

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