profiling

profiling
noun Date: 1980 the act or process of extrapolating information about a person based on known traits or tendencies <
consumer profiling
>
; specifically the act of suspecting or targeting a person on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior <
racial profiling
>

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • profiling — [prō′fīl΄iŋ] n. 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… …   English World dictionary

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