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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Without equal citizenship, equal voting rights, and equal opportunity to elect representatives of one’s choice, republican government was an impossibility.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Just as humans are all the same at birth, they’re alike in death, too, afforded an equal opportunity to find their ideal eternity.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

It also 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 • Oct. 13, 2025

"All I have ever wanted is the chance to serve safely and freely with equal opportunity as an MP."

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

As much as I believed that Negro people should have an equal opportunity to participate in American society, there were realities to deal with.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

equal opportunity

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