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person of color
[ pur-suhn uhv kuhl-er ]
noun
- a person who is not white:
The corporation was especially eager to recruit women and people of color.
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of person of color1
Idioms and Phrases
A nonwhite person, such as someone of African or Native American descent. For example, They have made a genuine effort to promote persons of color to executive positions . This seemingly modern euphemism actually dates from the late 1700s and was revived in the late 1900s.Example Sentences
It’s, like, a room full of white guys is merit, but any time that there’s a woman or a person of color in the room, it’s DEI.
“No, because I know what that feels like,” Cornejo, a person of color, responded.
The Grammy winner, 32, said she is the only person of color in her neighborhood and vowed to track down the person who called CPS.
In about 77% of cases where the race of the defendant has been identified, he said, the accused was a person of color.
Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time before a Haitian or other person of color is injured or killed because of Trump and his propagandists’ racist lies and provocations.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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