segregation

UK/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/US/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/

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Segregation is keeping groups of people forcibly apart. Racial segregation, end segregation, segregation laws.

Legal segregation in the American South and under apartheid in South Africa was enforced by law until the second half of the twentieth century. Segregation can also happen without law, through housing and schooling, and that kind has proved harder to end.

Definitions of segregation

1nounsegregationKeeping groups of people forcibly apart.B2+
“Under segregation, black and white children in the American South went to separate schools.”

segregation is a separation.

Where it comes from

Latin segregatio comes from segregare, to set apart from the flock — se, apart, plus grex, a flock.

Latin
segregatio
English, today
segregation

1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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segregation in the wild

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
Racial segregation
Racial segregation can amount to the international crime of apartheid and a crime against humanity under the 2002 Rome Declaration of Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Racial segregation
Sex segregation is the physical and sometimes legal separation of people according to their gender or sex at any age.
Sex segregation
Sex segregation and integration considered harmless or normal in one country can be considered radical or illegal in others.
Sex segregation
Religious segregation is the separation of people according to their religion.
Religious segregation

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