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redlining

or red-lin·ing

[ red-lahy-ning ]

noun

  1. a discriminatory practice by which banks, insurance companies, etc., refuse or limit loans, mortgages, insurance, etc., within specific geographic areas, especially inner-city neighborhoods.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of redlining1

redline + -ing 1, as if banks, insurance companies, etc., had outlined such areas in red on a map

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Example Sentences

In short, redlining forced blacks into particular areas and then starved those areas of affordable capital.

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