people-first language

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people-first language
politically correct language referring to disabilities by avoiding adjectives or the copula

people first language, which refers to the person first and the disability second: Americans with disabilities, for example, rather than disabled Americans, letter to the editor of BusinessWeek, published in Issue 3059 (1988).

people-first language

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    people-first lan-guage

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () US English. Grammatically a nominal phrase "people first" used as a hyphenated adjective modifying "language". As a term advocated by disability rights organizations in the United States from 1988.
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