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canteen culture

 
 
noun [S or U] UK

Definition

disapproving WORKPLACE racist and sexist attitudes shared by many ordinary workers within an organization, especially attitudes that the organization officially disapproves of: He accepted that there was a canteen culture of racism within the police service.
(Definition of canteen culture noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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