Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of redline.
Examples
“The new "redlining" is not geographic but something qualitatively similar, and no less invidious against non-corporate entities.”
Adams bankers say they'll go after Breedlove (Jack Bog's Blog)
“The corporation chartered by the government to combat redlining is itself redlining?!?”
Housing's P/E Ratio, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The practice became known as redlining because red lines were drawn around neighborhoods of color to mark them as high risk.”
“On the other hand, if the problem were really analogous to state regulation of insurance, I'd expect there to be some "redlining" - localities or states that modular home makers do not serve because their regulations are unusually onerous.”
From Religion to Real Estate, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In the 1970s, when community groups discovered that lenders and the FHA were engaged in systematic racial discrimination against minority consumers and neighborhoods -- a practice called "redlining" -- they mobilized and got Congress, led by Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, to adopt the Community Reinvestment Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which together have significantly reduced racial disparities in lending.”
“It also outlaws "redlining" - the banking practice of drawing a figurative "red line" around specific geographic areas in which they are not prepared to lend money.”
“While past lending discrimination cases primarily focused on "redlining" - a bank's refusal to lend to qualified borrowers in minority areas - the new push will instead center on a more recent phenomenon critics have called "reverse redlining.”
“Although the act was adopted to prevent "redlining" - the practice of refusing loans to otherwise qualified borrowers in low-income areas-it also contained language that included small business, agriculture, and similar groups among the interests that had to be served.”
“In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of "redlining" - claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending.”
“Many of these neighborhoods had historically been subject to "redlining" - the practice of designating specific lower-income or minority neighborhoods as off-limits for credit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘redlining’.
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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You're Either With Us or Against Us!
Matters of human exceptionalism, exclusivity, and 'types of'. (It's a sister list to "Name-Calling Humans".)
traditionalism, fundamentalism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, racism, elitism, eugenics, heteronormative, tribalism, apartheid, separatism, xenophobia and 8 more...
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Caducosity's Words
supervene, aubergine, parvenu, suntrap, akrasia, monopsony, romish, kaputtreparieren, verschlimmbessern, redlining, distaff, anomie and 7 more...
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Real Estate Law
The area I'm employed in - not as an attorney but a civil servant working as the clerk of a county assessment appeals board.
joint tenant, interspousal, abutting, fee simple, inter vivos trust, grantee, hold harmless, laches, leasehold estate, right of survivor..., life estate, mechanic's lien and 86 more...
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