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apartheid

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CIDE DICTIONARY

apartheidn. [Afrikaans, fr. D. apart apart + -heid -hood.].
  •  segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  the official policy of strict segregation by race practised by the government of the Union of South Africa up to 1993.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

apartheid, n.
1 (esp. in S. Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
2 segregation in other contexts.

Etymology
Afrik. (as APART, -HOOD)

THESAURUS

apartheid

Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, alien, anti-Semitism, apartness, black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, detachment, discrimination, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fascism, foreigner, insularity, insulation, isolation, isolationism, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, minority prejudice, narrowness, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy, privatism, privatization, quarantine, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation, racialism, racism, recess, reclusion, red-baiting, retirement, retreat, rustication, seclusion, secrecy, segregation, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, sex discrimination, sexism, snobbishness, social barrier, social discrimination, splendid isolation, stranger, superpatriotism, tightness, ultranationalism, white power, white supremacy, withdrawal, xenophobia

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