WHAT IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT? Hostile work environment is created where the prohibited conduct is so severe or pervasive that a reasonable person in employeeâs circumstances would have considered the work environment to be hostile or abusive.
descent (plural descents) 1  An instance of descending. 2  A way down. 3  A sloping passage or incline.  Lineage or hereditary 1  derivation. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. ( topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.
lineage. n. 1. direct descent from an ancestor, esp a line of descendants from one ancestor. 2. a less common word for derivation.ineage. noun descent, family, line, succession, house, stock, birth, breed, pedigree, extraction, ancestry, forebears, progeny, heredity, forefathers, genealogy They can trace their lineage back to the 18th century.