steering

[steer-ing]

noun

1. the discriminatory practice by a real estate agent of maneuvering a client from a minority group away from considering a home in a white neighborhood.

Other Word Forms

• self-steering adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of steering¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

Once or twice, I fretted Raiff might be steering his ship to some cliched dark outcome, but I needn’t have worried.

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At the DSA’s Chicago convention, a member of the New York City steering committee bragged that “we wrote the platform with him.”

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The irony is that over the last few weeks senior RBA staff have been signaling their rising concern about simmering inflation risks, and steering the bank’s public narrative away from further interest-rate cuts.

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I became the quiet architect behind family dinners, steering Thanksgiving over the finish line, tucking myself into someone else’s kitchen for the holidays.

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Northumberland County Council said it had a multi-agency Child to Parent Violence and Aggression steering group and offered a range of services for families.

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