Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
ageism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people
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Examples
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Selina was very good, but surely she has had a very good and highly paid career, and doesnt really need to go to the lengths of losing all of her self-respect by launching law suits for "agism".
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As gender, ethnicity, and now political orientation have been ticked off their lefty-whinging-by-numbers ticklist there is only disability, sexual orientation, agism, education-level and economic status left.
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I'm constantly fighting back against rampant sexism, racism, homophobia, agism, classism, and transphobia, and I show the links from the oppressor's words, or actions, to the offense.
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There goes ol 'McCain trying to use agism in his favor.
Franken takes on Lieberman as tensions builds in Senate 2009
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The overwhelming agism of this whole show crystallized when, in Demi's intro to the Dead People Montage, she said of the dead ones passings: "some tragically and much too soon."
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The overwhelming agism of this whole show crystallized when, in Demi's intro to the Dead People Montage, she said of the dead ones passings: "some tragically and much too soon."
The Our Gang Oscars 2010
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Only that foundation would allow the corporation to also be inclusive of all humanity and so transcend racism sexism agism and economic classism all at once.
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Critics say the agency has been practicing agism, sexismand racism for so long, that discrimination against minority employees and farmers is as much a part of the culture as the paperwork the bureaucracy generates.
82 year old black farmer arrested on terroristic threatening charges 2009
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Charges of racism, sexism, agism, etc. would be ringing out of your rapidly typing little fingers.
Obama Campaign: We Won Nevada Caucus -- Based On Delegate Count 2009
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Yet another sign that McSame is too old (lest I be accused of agism, I mean this in the context of his mindset, not his physiological age) and too stuck in the past.
McCain To Hit Obama On Cuba Policy, Willingness To Meet With Raul Castro 2009
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