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racial profilings

racial profilings is the plural of racial profiling.

Meaning of racial profiling

Noun

racial profiling (usually uncountable, plural racial profilings)

  1. (usually, public policy) The practice (usually considered discreditable), by some police and other officials, of treating members of certain racial groups as more likely to be involved in criminal or other antisocial behavior than members of other racial groups.
    • This legislation represents a substantial step toward ending an insidious form of discrimination that is plaguing African-American and Hispanic drivers on our roadways — racial profiling.1999, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress, First Session, vol. 145, part 5, p. 6720 (Google preview)

Questions about racial profilings

What is racial profilings the plural of?
Racial profilings is the plural of racial profiling.

Words near racial profilings in the dictionary

  1. racial profile
  2. racial profiler
  3. racial profilers
  4. racial profiles
  5. racial profiling
  6. racial profilings
  7. racial purity
  8. racial science
  9. racial sciences
  10. racial spoils
  11. racialisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: racial profilings (page history and authors); racial profiling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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