discriminatory treatment

collocation in English

meaningsofdiscriminatoryandtreatment

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discriminatory
adjective
uk
/dɪˈskrɪm.ɪ.nə.tər.i/us
/dɪˈskrɪm.ə.nə.tɔːr.i/
treating a person or group differently from and usually worse than other people, because of their race, gender, ...
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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 ofdiscriminatoryandtreatmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Informants identified social issues that involveddiscriminatorytreatmentof elders as experiences that are not unique to older people.
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Items assessing adolescents' perceptions of negative,discriminatorytreatmentby teachers or school counselors due to their race or gender were created for this study.
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Discriminatorytreatmentis, therefore, related to such predilections of who and what older people are, and their position in society.
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Past research on the causes of intolerance has provided strong evidence regarding which people single out unpopular groups fordiscriminatorytreatment.
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Nevertheless, we do not support harshdiscriminatorytreatmentto the detriment of tobacco growing expressly based on a ‘prohibitionist’ approach to the smoking phenomenon.
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In it we agreed to work for the elimination of all forms ofdiscriminatorytreatmentin international commerce.
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That being so, to me it seems odd that since the war we should have singled out port fordiscriminatorytreatment.
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Illegitimate children and their parents are not singled out fordiscriminatorytreatmentin any departmental legislation, regulations or rules.
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There is, however, no case for picking out the steel industry for particularly vindictive anddiscriminatorytreatment, which is what has happened here.
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Those divisions express themselves in voting, culture, education, and also, until recently, in overtlydiscriminatorytreatmentof one community by the other.
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No reason has been given for this inconsistent anddiscriminatorytreatment.
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The fact that women tend to live longer than men is no justification fordiscriminatorytreatment.
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The law already offers employees unqualified protection in case of dismissal or otherdiscriminatorytreatmenton grounds of union membership.
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Our last major objection to these regulations is their unjust anddiscriminatorytreatmentof young people, whether in work or unemployed.
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I am afraid that it is not practicable to providediscriminatorytreatmentfor particular groups of pensioners on the lines suggested in the question.
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One of the effects of ourdiscriminatorytreatmentis undoubtedly the brain drain.
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As this figure shows, there is no question of singling out the teachers fordiscriminatorytreatment.
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The amendments agreed would limit the prohibition todiscriminatorytreatment.
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