Usually means: Efforts to promote equal opportunity.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmative action: Merriam-Webster
  2. affirmative action: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affirmative action: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affirmative action: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affirmative action: Vocabulary.com
  6. affirmative-action, affirmative action: Wordnik
  7. affirmative action: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affirmative action: Wiktionary
  9. affirmative action: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. affirmative action: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. affirmative-action, affirmative action: Dictionary.com
  12. Affirmative Action, Affirmative-action, Affirmative action: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. affirmative action: Rhymezone
  14. affirmative action: FreeDictionary.org
  15. affirmative action: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. affirmative action: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. affirmative action: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. affirmative action: Merriam-Webster

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmative action: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. affirmative action: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. affirmative action: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affirmative action: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affirmative action: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. affirmative action: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (affirmative action)

noun:  (uncountable) A set of policies or programs providing advantages for people of a group who are seen to have traditionally been the target of discrimination.
noun:  (countable) A specific policy with such a goal.

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