APARTHEID

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 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)

Sense 1

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)