APARTHEID
Dictionary entry overview: What does apartheid mean? • APARTHEID (noun)
The noun APARTHEID has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: APARTHEID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• APARTHEID (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("apartheid" is a kind of...):
social policy (a policy of for dealing with social issues)
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