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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The process of or an instance of redlining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
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verb
present participle and gerund of redline
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
(systematic denial): From the red outlines used by the HOLC to mark D-rated neighborhoods with minority occupants.
