Usually means: Unjust treatment based on differences.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. discrimination: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discrimination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discrimination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discrimination: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discrimination: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discrimination, discrimination: Wordnik
  7. discrimination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discrimination: Wiktionary
  9. discrimination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discrimination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discrimination: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. discrimination: Dictionary.com
  13. discrimination: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Discrimination (disambiguation), Discrimination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Discrimination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. discrimination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. discrimination: Rhymezone
  18. discrimination, discrimination (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. discrimination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. discrimination: Free Dictionary
  21. discrimination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. discrimination: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discrimination: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. discrimination: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. discrimination: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. discrimination: Legal dictionary
  6. discrimination: Financial dictionary
  7. Discrimination: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Discrimination: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. discrimination: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. discrimination: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. discrimination: Political
  3. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

(Note: See discriminational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, countable) Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with the intent to understand rightly and make correct decisions.
noun:  (uncountable, countable, sometimes with "against") Differential treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry.
noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being discriminating; acute discernment, especially in matters of good taste.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) That which discriminates; a distinguishing mark, a characteristic.

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