apartheid
"For use by white persons": a sign in English and Afrikaans from the apartheid period.
Meanings
Noun
- The policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
- Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination.
- A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
Verb
- To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart ("separate") + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
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