discriminatee

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noun

One who is the subject of discrimination.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noundiscriminatee (plural discriminatees)

plural discriminatees

  1. One who is the subject of discrimination.

    As employees of SG Construction, the 12 nonalleged discriminatees received the same rates of pay as they had received as employees of Summit Express.

    2008, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 609
    1 more example

    The first, harm-based account holds (roughly) that discrimination is morally bad when and to the extent that it brings about harm to the discriminatee or others.

    2023, Frej Klem Thomsen, “No Disrespect—But That Account Does Not Explain What Is Morally Bad About Discrimination”, in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, volume 23, number 3, page 42

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