Term: affirmative action: a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: spaghetti squash: squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: dogsbody: a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: challenge: a demanding or stimulating situation
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: michelson-morley experiment: a celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: wine cask: a barrel that holds wine
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: watermelon begonia: grown as a houseplant for its silvery striped fleshy foliage; South America
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: euclid's fifth axiom: only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: flock: a church congregation guided by a pastor
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: brass knucks: a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand
Broader: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) | Unrelated: bran muffin: muffin containing bran