discriminate Význam & definícia

Význam discriminate v slovenčine

• 0 to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc.:

  • She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age.

  • In order to increase the number of female representatives, the selection committee decided to discriminate in favour of women for three years.

• 1 to be able to see the difference between two things or people:

  • Police dogs can discriminate between the different smells.

• 2 to treat a person or particular group of people differently and esp. unfairly, in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated:

  • It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or age.

  • They argued that whites in the area in the 1800s discriminated against the Lakota.

• 3 to be able to see the difference between two things or types of things:

  • [ I ] We need to discriminate between stopgap methods and long-term solutions.

• 4 to treat particular people, companies, or products differently from others, especially in an unfair way:

  • Under the law, the state must administer its programs in ways that do not discriminate against anyone based on race.

  • discriminate on the basis of/on the grounds of sth The board ruled that the company had committed "unfair labor practices" by discriminating on the basis of union membership.

  • discriminate between sb/sth (and sb/sth) The government was accused of putting up tariffs and discriminating between domestic and foreign firms.

• 5 to be able to recognize the difference between people or things:

  • discriminate between sb/sth (and sb/sth) Conventional credit scoring systems do not reliably discriminate between good and bad payers among people in the 18 to 25 age group.