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ethnic cleansing

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The systematic elimination of an ethnic group or groups from a region or society, as by deportation, forced emigration, or genocide.

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  • noun The mass extermination or expulsion of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another.

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  • noun the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area

Etymologies

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From ethnic + cleansing. Perhaps compare Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Originally used of (and still chiefly associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

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