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redline

[ UK /ɹˈɛdla‍ɪn/ ]
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  1. discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood

How To Use redline In A Sentence

  • Sanger says the White House hasn't publicly stated where the "redline" on Iran is, maybe because he doesn't want the media to know? TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
  • The white people have fled the urban center and the tax districts have been structured so that the affluent areas benefit themselves and the struggling areas get kind of redlined.
  • Private banks, and the Federal Housing and Veterans administrations, favored homeowner loans to single-family dwellings in the ‘new homogeneous’ neighborhoods sprouting to the west, and redlined older areas of the city.
  • Acceleration is perfectly adequate up to about 80 mph, but the engine screams at redline when it's time to merge into highway traffic.
  • There's no relaxing because with the tight transmission ratios, the tach jumps right back to redline.
  • War on Poverty planners had argued that poverty persisted in distressed areas partly because banks and other businesses redlined them, starving them of the investment they needed to revive by refusing to do business there.
  • Thanks in part to the advent of electronic controls, engineers are trimming losses, perfecting combustion, boosting volumetric efficiency and raising redlines.
  • When black families found a way to buy homes in white neighborhoods, such as Riverside Terrace along Houston's Brays Bayou, the FHA would redline the area as high-risk.
  • I make the most of it, jinking around the cars ahead of us and jamming the RPMs to redline.
  • As the light turned green, I punched the throttle, and shifted quickly, dumping the clutch at the Audi's seven thousand RPM redline.
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