apartheidern.
/əˈpɑːtʌɪtə/, /əˈpɑːtʌɪdə/, /əˈpɑːteɪtə/, /əˈpɑːtheɪtə/, /əˈpɑːthʌɪtə/, U.S. /əˈpɑrˌteɪdər/, /əˈpɑrˌtaɪdər/, South African English /əˈpɑːt(h)eɪtə/ Originally South African. Now chiefly historical.
An advocate or supporter of South African apartheid or (in extended use) any form of segregation, separation, or isolation.
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1951 Union S. Afr. Deb. House of Assembly 76 7828 The apartheiders cannot undo the past nor remake our society at will nor can they make a new future for South Africa.
1958 A. Paton Hope for S. Afr. vii. 54 Finally, the total apartheider can say, ‘I am a liberal too... I want apartheid, but I want a just apartheid.’
1963 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 16 The latest legislative savagery against all save apartheiders.
1989 Times 28 Sept. 17/3 A measure of privatisation of adoption is called for, with a diminution in the powers of these ideological apartheiders of the nanny State.
2015 V. Bila Bilakhulu! 55 I served as a guerilla against the apartheiders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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