gender-specific

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Adjective

gender-specific (comparative more gender-specific, superlative most gender-specific)

  1. Referring to a word or expression that refers to one gender only.
    • 2022 April 20, “Network News: RSSB to explore new terms to replace 'pilotman'”, in RAIL, number 955, page 16:
      It says the Rule Book term 'pilotman' "has recently been raised as an issue as it is gender-specific", and that it is "developing a proposal to replace it using gender neutral language".

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