ADJ
- age, class, gender, race/racial, religious, sex/sexual
- widespread
- There is widespread discrimination against doctors of Asian origin
- active, blatant, direct, explicit, overt
- evidence of active discrimination against black workers
- covert, indirect
- positive, reverse
- positive discrimination in favour of disadvantaged racial groups
- illegal, unlawful
- Overt sex or race discrimination is illegal
- employment, job
- government, institutional/institutionalized
- institutionalized discrimination against women within the police force
QUANT
- level
- Levels of discrimination against recent immigrants are high
VERB + DISCRIMINATION
- amount to, constitute
- Racist remarks by an employer to an employee can amount to unlawful discrimination
- experience, face, suffer (from)
- Many disabled people suffer discrimination at work
- practise
- allege
- law suits alleging discrimination
- be opposed to, combat, fight
- ban, end, forbid, outlaw, prohibit, stop
DISCRIMINATION + VERB
- occur
- The discrimination occurred at the shortlisting stage, not the interviews
PREP
- ~ against
- discrimination against women
- ~ by
- Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race
- ~ in favour of
- Some firms practise discrimination in favour of older people
- ~ on the grounds of
- It's time we banned discrimination on the grounds of age
PHRASES
- a victim of discrimination
VERB + DISCRIMINATION
- make
- Young children find it difficult to make fine discriminations
- show
- She showed great discrimination in rejecting the poor quality teas
PREP
- ~ between
- discrimination between right and wrong
