bame
bame — adjective
- bamepositive
- bamercomparative
- bamestsuperlative
1. a UK term for people who are Black, Asian, or from other ethnic minority groups;
a UK term for people who are Black, Asian, or from other ethnic minority groups; now avoided in official use because it treats many different communities as if they were a single group
Baraka asked the university why its report still used the BAME label.
collocation: BAME label
A Leeds charity dropped BAME from its reports after staff said the label blurred real differences among clients.
Sahil explained to the hiring panel why the BAME category felt too broad.
Birmingham City Council removed the BAME tick-box from all its job application forms last year.
Paloma's study showed that the BAME label hid the fact that Black women had far higher diabetes rates.
- BME
an older UK acronym for Black and Minority Ethnic, which leaves out Asian groups
- ethnic minority
a broader term used internationally, without the specific UK-policy history of BAME
文法句型
BAME + noun
用法筆記
Always used before a noun (attributive only). The term is now avoided by many UK public bodies and broadcasters; the BBC and most government departments phased it out after 2020.
常見錯誤
bame — abbreviation
1. B-A-M-E spells out Black (B), Asian (A), and Minority Ethnic (ME) — the three ca
B-A-M-E spells out Black (B), Asian (A), and Minority Ethnic (ME) — the three category labels that form this UK statistical abbreviation
Trang looked up what BAME stands for after seeing it in a news report.
pattern: what BAME stands for
Lambeth Council's new policy explained that the acronym BAME was first used in government statistics during the 1990s.
Esme asked why the hospital still put the acronym BAME on its intake forms.
Zayd looked up BAME in the report glossary and learned it stood for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic.