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apartheids

apartheids is the plural of apartheid.

apartheids is the third-person singular simple present indicative of apartheid.

Meaning of apartheid

Noun

apartheid (countable and uncountable, plural apartheids)

  1. (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
    • She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection1988, Eddy Grant, “Gimme Hope Jo'anna”
  2. (broadly) Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
    • The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
  3. (broadly) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
    • Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip...2008, Peter Hewitt, Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency, →ISBN, page 64

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Questions about apartheids

What is apartheids the plural of?
Apartheids is the plural of apartheid.

Words near apartheids in the dictionary

  1. apartheidized
  2. apartheidizes
  3. apartheidizing
  4. apartheidlike
  5. apartheidness
  6. apartheids
  7. aparthood
  8. aparthotel
  9. aparthotels
  10. apartment
  11. apartment block

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