Associations to the word «Redline»
Noun
Wiktionary
REDLINE, noun. A drawing, document, etc. that has been marked for correction or modification.
REDLINE, noun. The maximum speed at which the engine in a car is designed to operate.
REDLINE, verb. To mark a drawing or document for correction or modification.
REDLINE, verb. To run an internal combustion engine to its maximum or maximum recommended speed.
REDLINE, verb. To deny or complicate access to services (such as banking, insurance, or healthcare) to residents in specific, often racially determined, areas.
Dictionary definition
REDLINE, verb. Discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.