Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun affirmative_action

1 sense of affirmative action

Sense 1
affirmative action -- (a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision")
       => social action -- (a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform))