sexual harassment

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛkʃuəl ˈhæɹəsmənt/, /ˌsɛkʃuəl həˈɹæsmənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sexual harassment (uncountable)

1. 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

• sexually harass (verb)

Translations

sexual harassment

• Arabic: تَحَرُّش جِنْسِيّ m (taḥarruš jinsiyy)
• Armenian: սեռական ոտնձգություն (seṙakan otnjgutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: cinsi təcavüz
• Catalan: assetjament sexual (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 性騷擾 / 性骚扰 (sing³ sou¹ jiu²)

  Mandarin: 性騷擾 / 性骚扰 (zh) (xìngsāorǎo)

• Dutch: seksuele intimidatie f, ongewenste intimiteiten
• Esperanto: seksa mobingo
• Finnish: seksuaalinen häirintä (fi)
• French: harcèlement sexuel (fr) m
• Georgian: სექსუალური შევიწროება (seksualuri ševic̣roeba)
• German: sexuelle Belästigung f
• Hebrew: הַטְרָדָה מִינִית (he) f
• Hindi: (Indian English: Eve teasing, only man on woman) ईव-टीज़िंग f (īv-ṭīziṅg)
• Indonesian: pelecehan seksual
• Irish: ciapadh gnéasach m
• Italian: molestia sessuale f
• Japanese: セクシャルハラスメント (ja) (sekusharu harasumento), セクハラ (ja) (sekuhara)
• Kazakh: жыныстық алымсақтық (jynystyq alymsaqtyq)
• Kongo: жыныстык асылууга (jınıstık asıluuga)
• Korean: 성희롱 (seonghuirong)
• Lithuanian: seksualinis priekabiavimas m
• Malay: gangguan seksual (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seksuell trakassering m or f

  Nynorsk: seksuell trakassering f

• Polish: molestowanie seksualne n, napastowanie seksualne n
• Portuguese: assédio sexual (pt) m
• Romanian: hărțuire sexuală f
• Russian: сексуа́льные домога́тельства n pl (seksuálʹnyje domogátelʹstva)
• Spanish: acoso sexual m
• Swedish: sexuella trakasserier pl, sexuellt ofredande n
• Turkish: cinsel taciz (tr)
• Ukrainian: сексуа́льні домага́ння n pl (seksuálʹni domahánnja)
• Uzbek: jinsiy shilqimlik
• Vietnamese: quấy rối tình dục
• Welsh: aflonyddwch rhywiol m

References

• “sexual harassment”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “sexual harassment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.