apartheid

noun

apart·heid ə-ˈpär-ˌtāt How to pronounce apartheid (audio)

-ˌtīt

: racial segregation

specifically : a former policy of segregation and political, social, and economic discrimination against the nonwhite majority in the Republic of South Africa

Note: The extreme racial segregation of apartheid lasted from 1948 to 1994 and included such restrictions as where people of certain races (see race entry 1 sense 1a) could live or own land, what jobs they could hold, and who could and couldn't participate in government.

: separation, segregation

cultural apartheid

gender apartheid

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The end of South Africa’s apartheid regime in 1994 was met with jubilation.

Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022 Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look more fairminded.

Helen Kapstein, The Conversation, 28 July 2022 For example, some corporate ethicists advised against pharmaceutical companies’ total divestment from South Africa’s apartheid regime to ensure essential medicines flowed to the country.

Sarah Varney, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2022 That’s the bargain South Africa struck as apartheid’s decades of segregation and human rights abuses ended in the early 1990s.

Morgan Wack, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022 Spikes in the prices of energy and food have already sparked upheavals from Peru to Pakistan, immiserating millions already on the losing end of vaccine apartheid.

Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 In South Africa under apartheid, such a conversation was the mixing of races.

Helen Kapstein, The Conversation, 28 July 2022 In the 1980s, Joyce Lashof leveraged her powers as a top university administrator to organize initiatives to fight discrimination against people with AIDS and to protest apartheid in South Africa.

Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022 To begin with, the vaccine apartheid has left nearly 2.8 billion people, mostly people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), waiting for their first vaccine dose.

Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 6 June 2022 See More

单词	apartheid
释义	apartheid noun apart·heid ə-ˈpär-ˌtāt -ˌtīt 1 : racial segregation specifically : a former policy of segregation and political, social, and economic discrimination against the nonwhite majority in the Republic of South Africa Note: The extreme racial segregation of apartheid lasted from 1948 to 1994 and included such restrictions as where people of certain races (see race entry 1 sense 1a) could live or own land, what jobs they could hold, and who could and couldn't participate in government. 2 : separation, segregation cultural apartheid gender apartheid Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The end of South Africa’s apartheid regime in 1994 was met with jubilation. Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022 Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look more fairminded. Helen Kapstein, The Conversation, 28 July 2022 For example, some corporate ethicists advised against pharmaceutical companies’ total divestment from South Africa’s apartheid regime to ensure essential medicines flowed to the country. Sarah Varney, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2022 That’s the bargain South Africa struck as apartheid’s decades of segregation and human rights abuses ended in the early 1990s. Morgan Wack, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022 Spikes in the prices of energy and food have already sparked upheavals from Peru to Pakistan, immiserating millions already on the losing end of vaccine apartheid. Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 In South Africa under apartheid, such a conversation was the mixing of races. Helen Kapstein, The Conversation, 28 July 2022 In the 1980s, Joyce Lashof leveraged her powers as a top university administrator to organize initiatives to fight discrimination against people with AIDS and to protest apartheid in South Africa. Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022 To begin with, the vaccine apartheid has left nearly 2.8 billion people, mostly people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), waiting for their first vaccine dose. Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 6 June 2022 See More Word History Etymology Afrikaans, from apart apart + -heid -hood First Known Use 1947, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Phrases Containing apartheid anti-apartheid anti-apartheid apartheid noun as in segregation a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance segregation discrimination racism separatism bigotry racialism prejudice intolerance Jim Crow race-baiting narrowness narrow-mindedness Antonyms & Near Antonyms antiracism antidiscrimination assimilationism antisegregation
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