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Profiling

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Noun

1. profiling

recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Profiling

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noun
the practice of categorizing people and predicting their behaviour according to particular characteristics such as race or age
racial profiling

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Profiling

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noun
the practice or method of preparing a set of characteristics belonging to a certain class or group of people or things by which to identify individuals as belonging to such a class or group, as to detain for investigation of a possible crime

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Profiling

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n.
1. The use of data compiled about people who have committed criminal offenses in the effort to describe or identify the most likely suspects in a particular crime: criminal profiling; psychological profiling.
2. The use of racial, economic, ethnic, or other characteristics by law enforcement as the basis of determining whom to search or investigate on suspicion of criminal activity.
3. See DNA profiling.
4. See molecular profiling.

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