affirmative : Idioms & Phrases


affirmative action

  • noun 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
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affirmative pleading

  • noun any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff
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