The meaning of DISCRIMINATE is to unfairly treat a person or group differently from other people or groups on a class or categorical basis (as race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation).

DISCRIMINATE definition: 1. to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the…. Learn more.

DISCRIMINATE definition: to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than …

Definition of discriminate verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to recognize that there is a difference between people or things; to show a …

He is old enough to discriminate [= distinguish, tell] right from wrong. I can discriminate [= differentiate] the individual voices in the choir.

When you discriminate between two things, you can tell the difference between them and can tell them apart. The ability to discriminate between similar objects is important.

To discriminate against a group of people or in favour of a group of people means to unfairly treat them worse or better than other groups. They believe the law discriminates against women. …

Discrimination is the process of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, so that it …

discriminate vb /dɪˈskrɪmɪˌneɪt/ (intransitive; usually followed by in favour of or against) to single out a particular person, group, etc, for special favour or, esp, disfavour, often because of a …

To make or constitute a distinction in or between: methods that discriminate science from pseudoscience; characteristics that discriminate early stone artifacts from pieces of natural stone.