Definition of "apartheid" []

• 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. (noun)

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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!"
• "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."
• "He said that the United Nations should not be afraid to use the term apartheid to describe what is happening in occupied Palestine."