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adverse impact

n. The rejection for employment, placement, or promotion of a significantly higher percentage of a protected class, when compared with a non-protected class.

Usage examples of "adverse impact".

Elsewhere we try to minimize any adverse impact on the environment.

We ran the sociological progressions, and visiting planetside on a rotating basis would have no adverse impact.

What's more, unlike AIDS or famine in Africa, the humanitarian crisis in Iraq was entirely man-made, the result of actions taken by the government of Iraq and the United Nations, which knew that its actions could have an adverse impact on the Iraqi people.

Or hadn't you realized the adverse impact your spy fantasies might have on the serious job of marketing our constituent's products abroad?