disparate treatment

collocation in English

meaningsofdisparateandtreatment

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disparate
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪs.pər.ət/us
/ˈdɪs.pɚ.ət/
different in ...
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treatment
noun
uk
/ˈtriːt.mənt/us
/ˈtriːt.mənt/
the way you deal with or behave towards someone ...
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(Definition ofdisparateandtreatmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Most intuitively it refers to deliberatelydisparatetreatmentaccorded persons on the basis of some identifying characteristic - in this instance, race.
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First, philosophers have devoted attention to the ethical significance of nationality and patriotism, asking whether an impartial morality permitsdisparatetreatmentof an individual's co-nationals.
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This is not a justification of thedisparatetreatmentas much as it is a description of it.
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Why on earth are we to have suchdisparatetreatmentof different kinds of land?
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Subsequent legislation has also banned forms ofdisparatetreatmentwhich were previously used to skirt this stipulation.
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Disparate impact is not the same asdisparatetreatment.
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Some critics argued that this isdisparatetreatmentof similar pension schemes and that more consistent protection was called for.
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The alternative to adisparatetreatmenttheory is a disparate impact theory.
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A disparate impact is unintentional, whereas adisparatetreatmentis an intentional decision to treat people differently based on their race or other protected characteristics.
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The authors argue that the apparent lack of effect in other literature reviews, is due to the reviews combiningdisparatetreatmentformulations rather than discretely separating them.
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Disparate impact contrasts withdisparatetreatment.
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