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apartheid — 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.

Senses

apartheid is used for these senses in English:

  • apartheid To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.

apartheid — full definition

  1. noun The system of racial segregation enforced by law in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
  2. noun Any similar policy that legally separates or discriminates against a group based on a shared trait.