equal opportunity

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   the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin

   Broadercivil right

   law

Questions about equal opportunity

What does equal opportunity mean?

equal opportunity means "the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin".

Is equal opportunity a common word?

equal opportunity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.