redlinings
redlinings is the plural of redlining.
Meaning of redlining
Noun
redlining (countable and uncountable, plural redlinings)
- The process of or an instance of redlining.
- I won't soon forget Ben handing me the first of those printouts, literally covered with his notes, arrows, X's, redlinings...My heart sank.2013, Adam Jones, The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections, →ISBN, page 29
- The systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.
- Admittedly, our metropolitan plan was an exercise in hope. There were million reasons why it might not have worked. But it represented a responsible way to try to begin atoning for the public housing ghettos, the racial zoning and covenants, the redlining, the “Negro removal,” and the other...2007, Alexander Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 120
Questions about redlinings
- What is redlinings the plural of?
- Redlinings is the plural of redlining.
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