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REDLINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redline mean?
• REDLINE (verb)
The verb REDLINE has 1 sense:
1. discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
Familiarity information: REDLINE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they redline ... he / she / it redlines
Past simple: redlined
Past participle: redlined
-ing form: redlining
... he / she / it redlines Past simple: redlined
Past participle: redlined
-ing form: redlining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "redline" is one way to...):
discriminate; separate; single out (treat differently on the basis of sex or race)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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