sexual harassment
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sexual harassment (uncountable)
- Harassment in the form of unwelcome sexual advances or remarks.
- Hyponyms: Eve-teasing, taharrush
- All new hires at this job are trained on how to prevent and how to respond to sexual harassment.
- 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN[1]:
- “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
Related terms
[edit]- sexually harass (verb)
Translations
[edit]sexual harassment
References
[edit]- “sexual harassment”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “sexual harassment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.