Agist vs Ageist - What's the difference?
agist | ageist |
To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
As a verb agist
is to take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.As an adjective ageist is
unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.As a noun ageist is
a person who behaves in an ageist manner.agist
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman agister (to pasture for a fee)Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* *ageist
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist .
- Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.
Noun
(en noun)- He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist , but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.
