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Apartheid
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- 1 The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. South-Africa, countable, historical, uncountable
"She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection"
- 2 a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa wordnet
- 3 Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule. broadly, countable, uncountable
"The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid."
- 4 A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute. broadly, countable, uncountable
"Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves."
- 1 To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
"Yes, apartheiding the apartheiders, is what the rest of the world is doing."
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
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