postcode discrimination

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discrimination on the basis of the area where someone lives, with relation to employment, credit rating, etc

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How to use postcode discrimination in a sentence

In Scandinavian countries this discrimination has been dramatically reduced.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But most of this gap, say the researchers who carried out the study, is due to discrimination.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
After the Iranian Revolution, discrimination took on a sectarian flavor.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2013, with help from corporations, the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act finally passed in the Senate.
Corporations Are No Longer Silent on LGBT Issues||December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And as bad as it might be for gay or lesbian people, the discrimination is markedly worse for transgender people.
State of LGBT Rights: Married on Sunday, but Fired on Monday|Gene Robinson|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If we had shot 'em without discrimination, the cowards would have got bold, seein' that they weren't safer in rear than in front.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Let the student continue this comparison till he attains very nearly the brevity and discrimination displayed by Mr. Killick.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
In selecting him for this important post Napoleon showed that power of discrimination which contributed so greatly to his success.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Dividends must be distributed among the stockholders without unjust discrimination.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
The Unemployed Workmen Act carries this contrary policy of discrimination according to merit into the class of the able-bodied.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb