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DEI en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /diː iː aɪ/

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    alt of diversity
    alt of equity
    • A second EO states that any “discriminatory” policies related to DEI in the military will be banned. 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops”, in CNN:
    • The universities’ publicly stated positions imply that there is only one proper way to interpret the DEI trinity: through the concept of “anti-racism,” which may not mean what you think it means. 2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023:
    • The former president’s son Donald Jr. swiped at Ms. Griner’s identity when he wrote that the Biden administration “was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine,” using the corporate-world acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion. 2022 December 9, Jonathan Weisman, Ken Bensinger, quoting Donald Trump Jr., “Blowback Over Griner’s Release Exposes Depth of America’s Divisions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022:

Coordinates

woke · politically correct · woke mind virus

Deriveds

DEI hire

Relateds

DEIA · DEIB · JEDI

Synonyms

DIE · EDI

Source: en.wiktionary, “DEI” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

DEI en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /diː iː aɪ/

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism) Initialism of Dutch East Indies.