rotuerottelu — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apartheid noun The system of racial segregation enforced by law in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
- segregation noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
Senses
rotuerottelu is used for these senses in English:
- apartheid To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
- segregation (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
apartheid — full definition
- noun The system of racial segregation enforced by law in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
- noun Any similar policy that legally separates or discriminates against a group based on a shared trait.
segregation — full definition
- noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
- noun The act of keeping things or people apart and organized into separate groups.
- noun In genetics, the process by which paired versions of a gene separate so each parent passes on only one copy to their offspring.