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  • 111administrative leave —    American    suspension from duty for alleged malpractice    Not appearing to prejudge the issue:     Administrative leave is the same thing as being suspended... the first step to being fired. (P. Cornwell, 2000) …

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  • 112help the police —    (with their inquiries)    British    to be in custody and presumed guilty of an offence with which you have not been charged    The purpose of the wording is not to prejudge guilt and so avoid the possibility of a subsequent conviction being… …

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  • 113preconceive — v. a. Prejudge, form a prior conception of …

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  • 114prejudicate — v. a. See prejudge …

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  • 115discriminate — v distinguish, discern, differentiate; split hairs, mince matters; divide, separate, segregate, isolate, set apart, set off, separate the sheep from the goats, separate the wheat from the chaff; prejudge, presuppose, presume …

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  • 116stereotype — n 1. convention, set form; tradition, custom; pattern, groove, rut, routine; habit, wont, one s old way. 2. banality, hackneyed phrase, conventionalism, cliché v 3. class, classify, generalize, categorize, pigeonhole, Sl. peg, Sl. button down,… …

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  • 117forejudge — I fore•judge [[t]fɔrˈdʒʌdʒ, foʊr [/t]] v. t. judged, judg•ing law to prejudge II fore•judge [[t]fɔrˈdʒʌdʒ, foʊr [/t]] v. t. judged, judg•ing forjudge …

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  • 118forejudge — I. /fɔˈdʒʌdʒ/ (say faw juj) verb (t) (forejudged, forejudging) to judge beforehand; prejudge. {fore + judge (verb) II. /fɔˈdʒʌdʒ/ (say faw juj) verb (t) (forejudged, forejudging) → forjudge …

  • 119misjudge — [v] get the wrong idea bark up wrong tree*, be misled, be overcritical, be partial, be unfair, be wrong, come to hasty conclusion, dogmatize, drop the ball*, err, misapprehend, miscalculate, miscomprehend, misconceive, misconjecture, misconstrue …

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  • 120prejudice — [n] belief without basis, information; intolerance ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity, foregone… …

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