equal opportunity

NOUN

affirmative action

Synonyms

WEAK

anti-discrimination equal rights policy even break fair hiring fair hiring practices fair shake fair treatment limited choice nondiscrimination positive discrimination quota system reverse discrimination

NOUN

equality

Synonyms

STRONGEST

civil rights coordination fairness identity impartiality parity tolerance

STRONG

commensurateness correspondence equatability equilibrium equipoise equivalence evenness homology likeness par parallelism sameness uniformity

WEAK

adequation fair play fair practice fair shake isonomy

Antonyms

STRONG

difference disagreement dissimilarity unlikeness

WEAK

disproportion imbalance inequality unfairness

NOUN

level playing field

Synonyms

WEAK

equal rights equity justice proportion symmetry

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Section 2 guarantees that minorities have an equal opportunity “to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Rice, no protofeminist, was an equal opportunity misanthrope in “The Adding Machine.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

This often comes up as an issue when it comes to selling advertising time—they can’t just sell advertising time to one side without offering an equal opportunity to the other.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

"Every player should have the right to fair and equal opportunity," said Tom Moffat, chief executive of the World Cricketers' Association - the global players' union.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

The regimental engineer of the 46th Guards, Klavdiya Ilushina, insisted that they had “absolute equal opportunity with men.”

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

equal opportunity

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