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antipreferential en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + preferential.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Opposing or forbidding preferential treatment.
    • The antipreferential clause in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was effectively rendered null and void without being openly repealed. 1994, Steven Yates, Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action, page xx: