Meanings
nounin-group (plural in-groups)
plural in-groups
- alternativeAlternative form of ingroup.
In-group bias, sometimes called in-group favoritism or in-group preference, means someone favoring people who look like them or are like them in other ways: in-group versus out-group preferences.
2020 June 6, Lisa Selin Davis, “Children aren’t born racist. Here’s how parents can stop them from becoming racist.”, in CNN, spoken by Sarah Gaither
verbin-group (third-person singular simple present in-groups, present participle in-grouping, simple past and past participle in-grouped)
present singular third person in-groups · participle present in-grouping · participle past in-grouped · past in-grouped
- alternativeAlternative form of ingroup.
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