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redlining definition - finance
The illegal practice of eliminating certain parts of a community from consideration for loans or mortgages. Areas are redlined because the area is considered to be a poor investment risk.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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