Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
- noun A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
- noun The condition of being separated from others; segregation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.
- noun the official policy of strict segregation by race practised by the government of the Union of South Africa up to 1993.
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- noun The policy of racial
separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990. - noun by extension Any similar policy of racial separation.
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- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We want to know - if life itself was threatened, as apartheid threatened the very existence of those who are black, was it not imperative that everything be done to end apartheid~ and if necessary by force of arms!
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We want to know - if life itself was threatened, as apartheid threatened the very existence of those who are black, was it not imperative that everything be done to end apartheid~ and if necessary by force of arms!
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The intersection of physical and societal separations and barriers have justly earned the term apartheid, referring to an historically parallel racist regime in South Africa against the indigenous Black population of that country.
Sarah Schulman: A Documentary Guide to Pinkwashing Sarah Schulman 2011
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The intersection of physical and societal separations and barriers have justly earned the term apartheid, referring to an historically parallel racist regime in South Africa against the indigenous Black population of that country.
Sarah Schulman: A Documentary Guide to Pinkwashing Sarah Schulman 2011
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The intersection of physical and societal separations and barriers have justly earned the term apartheid, referring to an historically parallel racist regime in South Africa against the indigenous Black population of that country.
Sarah Schulman: A Documentary Guide to Pinkwashing Sarah Schulman 2011
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The intersection of physical and societal separations and barriers have justly earned the term apartheid, referring to an historically parallel racist regime in South Africa against the indigenous Black population of that country.
Sarah Schulman: A Documentary Guide to Pinkwashing Sarah Schulman 2011
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He said that the United Nations should not be afraid to use the term apartheid to describe what is happening in occupied Palestine.
WORLD SILENT AS GAZA SUFFERS COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT BY ISRAEL 2008
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The use of the term apartheid actually contributes to one of the primary reasons why the occupation continues.
and the republican hopefuls? Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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The paragraph does not refer to Israel by name, but Palestinian activists at the conference have been using the term apartheid to describe its treatment of their countrymen.
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The party, which has been in office since 1948 when it gave the world the term apartheid, is now trying to win black support to challenge the far more popular African National Congress.
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947 Cape Times 24 Oct. 7/7 Mr. Hofmeyr said apartheid could not be reconciled with a policy of progress and prosperity for South Africa.
June 18, 2008