anti-harassment

adjective

an·​ti-ha·​rass·​ment
ˌan-tē-hə-ˈras-mənt;
-ˈher-əs-,
-ˈha-rəs-;
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-harassment (audio)
: serving or intended to discourage or prevent harassment
anti-harassment policies in the workplace

Examples of anti-harassment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Hawkins County School District, which denies the allegations, agreed to overhaul its anti-harassment procedures by hiring a compliance officer, creating an electronic portal to track complaints and reviewing anti-harassment efforts. Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 13 June 2024 Qin was charged with criminal mischief and issued an anti-harassment order by a Nassau County district court judge as a result. Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2024 Nevertheless, the National Women's Law Center found last year that 24 US states and the District of Columbia have passed more than 80 workplace anti-harassment bills since #MeToo began, said Forbes. The Week Staff, theweek, 8 Mar. 2024 Wise noted that Tesla since October 2011 has had written anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies and that a senior employee relations official at the company testified in the case that the use of the n-word has been banned at the Fremont factory since at least 2010. Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 It was found that the actor breached his contract by violating anti-harassment policies, causing the sixth season to be shortened from 13 to eight episodes, and that he was not entitled to be paid for the remainder of his contract. Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Their inability to unequivocally declare that calls for the genocide of Jews violates their institutions’ anti-bullying and anti-harassment codes sparked considerable and justifiable public uproar. Eitan Fischberger, National Review, 12 Dec. 2023 Balakrishnan, an international student from India, said those protections, along with the stronger anti-harassment policies, were a huge relief. Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023 The state Department of Education recommends reporting the bullying or discrimination to school officials and filing a complaint, following the procedures outlined by the local district’s anti-harassment policy. Gisselle Medina, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-harassment was in 1961

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“Anti-harassment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-harassment. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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