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

1 sense of equal opportunity

Sense 1
equal opportunity -- (the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin)
       => civil right -- (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)