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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
discriminatory
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
practices
▪ By 1956, for instance, it had been able to overcome discriminatory practices in transportation rates and costs.
▪ Team members might engage in discriminatory practices or hire only friends or relatives.
▪ Does Compact persuade employers to discontinue discriminatory practices?
▪ Adamson said he has fired employees and even canceled franchise agreements because of continued discriminatory practices.
▪ The office has no plans to tackle some of the most conspicuous discriminatory practices against women.
▪ Not precisely by design then, racism and discriminatory practices become part of the institutional culture.
▪ To take the analysis further, we need to look in more detail at racist beliefs and discriminatory practices.
▪ Each of the member states had a host of other discriminatory practices that effectively distorted trade patterns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a discriminatory hiring policy
▪ Congress is to launch an inquiry into discriminatory acts by immigration officials.
▪ The government enacted laws to protect women from discriminatory employment practices.
▪ Was there evidence of discriminatory treatment?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I read message after message spouting racist doctrines, discriminatory diatribes and personal attacks.
▪ Many of these measures were later recognised as discriminatory and overturned.
▪ Nor do boards have the discretion to reject texts based on racially discriminatory motives.
▪ The Court of Justice condemned this legislation and held that it was discriminatory and contrary to the right of establishment.
▪ The trial court found that her demands were not petty or unreasonable, since they involved practices she felt were racially discriminatory.
▪ The use of discriminatory language can and does disadvantage women and members of ethnic minority groups.
▪ This is in line with immigration laws which have been blatantly sexually discriminatory against black women.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discriminatory

Discriminatory \Dis*crim"i*na*to*ry\, a. Discriminative.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
discriminatory

1828; see discriminate + -ory.

Wiktionary
discriminatory

a. 1 Of or pertaining to discrimination (in all senses). 2 Showing prejudice or bias.

WordNet
discriminatory

  1. adj. being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge" [syn: prejudiced] [ant: unprejudiced]

  2. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons" [syn: invidious]

  3. capable of making fine distinctions [syn: discriminative]

  4. manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax"; "preferential tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting" [syn: preferential]

Usage examples of "discriminatory".

According to the carefully kept and minutely analysed rec ords of the galaxy’s more nit-picking elder civilisations, the Chelgrians had persisted in their religiosity for a significant time after the advent of scientific methodology, and - in continuing to cleave to the caste system - were unusual in retaining such a manifestly discriminatory social order so long into post-contact history.

And while the African Pluralists League organized worldwide student exchange programs, theatre and dance tours, physical and net-based art exhibitions, and lobbied aggressively against cultural isolationism and discriminatory treatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities .

According to the carefully kept and minutely analysed records of the galaxy's more nit-picking elder civilisations, the Chelgrians had persisted in their religiosity for a significant time after the advent of scientific methodology, and - in continuing to cleave to the caste system - were unusual in retaining such a manifestly discriminatory social order so long into post-contact history.