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like-gendered

like-gendered adjective: sharing the same or similar gender.

Adjective

like-gendered (comparative more like-gendered, superlative most like-gendered)

  1. Sharing the same or similar gender.
    • Psychobiography as a still-developing field will not benefit from being divided into preserves where certain subjects are studied only by like-gendered or like-cultured or like-minded psychobiographers.1997, Alan C. Elms, Uncovering Lives
    • Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179

Forms of like-gendered

comparativemore like-gendered
superlativemost like-gendered

Origin of like-gendered

From like + gender + -ed. Compare like-minded, like-cultured, etc.

Questions about like-gendered

What does like-gendered mean?
Like-gendered means sharing the same or similar gender.
What part of speech is like-gendered?
Like-gendered is an adjective.

Words near like-gendered in the dictionary

  1. like winkin
  2. like winking
  3. like you can talk
  4. like-cultured
  5. like-for-like
  6. like-gendered
  7. like-minded
  8. like-mindedness
  9. like-positioned
  10. like4like
  11. likeabilities

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