equal opportunity
- the aggregation of policies and practices in employment and other areas that do not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability.
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Contemporary Examples
I prefer my wilderness areas to house a few man-eaters (technically, equal-opportunity predators).
I was an equal-opportunity consumer, and if you had it, I did it.
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September 10, 2013
A harder-than-hard-core conservative and professional provocateur, Peterson is an equal-opportunity offender.
Let it be known that Anderson Cooper is an equal-opportunity ridiculer—even when it comes to his fellow CNN employees.
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October 5, 2012
We can only know that missing opportunities is an equal-opportunity curse.
equal opportunity
- the offering of employment, pay, or promotion equally to all, without discrimination as to sex, race, colour, disability, etc
- (as modifier)our equal-opportunity policy; an equal-opportunities employer
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equal opportunity
The goal of giving all persons an equal chance to an education and employment, and to protect their civil rights, regardless of their race, religious beliefs, or gender. In the United States, various minority groups have been fighting for equal opportunity over the last 150 years. (See affirmative action, civil rights movement, equal protection of the laws, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization for Women, segregation, sexism, suffragist, and women's movement.)
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