Usually means: Treats differently based on characteristics.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. discriminates: Merriam-Webster
  2. discriminates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. discriminates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Discriminates, discriminates: Wordnik
  5. discriminates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. discriminates: Wiktionary
  7. discriminates: Dictionary.com
  8. discriminates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. discriminates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discriminates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discriminates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discriminates: Idioms

(Note: See discriminate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (discriminate)

verb:  (intransitive) To make distinctions.
verb:  To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.
verb:  (intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice.
verb:  (intransitive, construed with against, uncommon) To infringe upon (a person's rights) in a prejudicial manner.
verb:  (transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
adjective:  Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
▸ Also see discriminate





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