racial harassment

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• racial harassment — ➔ harassment * * * racial harassment UK US noun [U] ► LAW, HR illegal bad treatment of a person because of their race: »The extent of racial harassment and violence faced by the Asian community over the years has seldom been acknowledged …   Financial and business terms

• harassment — har‧ass‧ment [ˈhærəsmənt, həˈræsmənt] noun [uncountable] LAW HUMAN RESOURCES when someone is treated in an unpleasant or threatening way: • The alleged harassment took place at the company s head office. ˌracial ˈharassment LAW …   Financial and business terms

• Harassment — refers to a wide spectrum of offensive behaviour. The term commonly refers to behaviour intended to disturb or upset, and, when the term is used in a legal sense, it refers to behaviours which are found threatening or disturbing. Sexual… …   Wikipedia

• racial — ra|cial [ˈreıʃəl] adj 1.) [only before noun] relating to the relationships between different races of people who now live in the same country or area ▪ a victim of racial discrimination ▪ This part of the community needs to be protected from… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• harassment — ha|rass|ment [ herəsmənt, hə ræsmənt ] noun uncount * annoying or unpleasant behavior toward someone that tales place regularly, for example threats, offensive remarks, or physical attacks: harassment of: The UN cannot tolerate the continuing… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• harassment */ — UK [ˈhærəsmənt] / UK [həˈræsmənt] / US / US [ˈherəsmənt] noun [uncountable] annoying or unpleasant behaviour towards someone that takes place regularly, for example threats, offensive remarks, or physical attacks harassment of: The UN cannot… …   English dictionary

• harassment — har|ass|ment [ˈhærəsmənt, həˈræsmənt] n [U] when someone behaves in an unpleasant or threatening way towards you ▪ African Americans have been complaining about police harassment for years. harassment of ▪ Political parties are banned, and… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• harassment — [[t]hæ̱rəsmənt, həræ̱s [/t]] N UNCOUNT: oft adj N Harassment is behaviour which is intended to trouble or annoy someone, for example repeated attacks on them or attempts to cause them problems. Another survey found that 51 per cent of women had… …   English dictionary

• racial — adjective 1 (only before noun) connected with the relationships between different races of people: an appeal for racial and religious tolerance | racial conflict | racial discrimination (=unfair treatment of people because of their race) | racial …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• harassment — noun (U) 1 unpleasant and often threatening behaviour, or offensive remarks: sexual/racial harassment (=towards someone of a different sex or race): sexual harassment in the workplace 2 a feeling of anxiety and tiredness because you have too many …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Harassment (UK) — Harassment in the United Kingdom is a topic which in the past couple of decades has been taken increasingly seriously and has been the subject of a number of pieces of major legislation. This article is intended to outline the procedure behind… …   Wikipedia