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redlinings

redlinings is the plural of redlining.

Meaning of redlining

Noun

redlining (countable and uncountable, plural redlinings)

  1. 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
  2. (Canada, US) 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.

Words near redlinings in the dictionary

  1. redliners
  2. redlines
  3. Redlinger
  4. Redlingers
  5. redlining
  6. redlinings
  7. redlink
  8. redlinks
  9. Redlins
  10. redlipped
  11. redlit

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