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apartheid

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947 (policy begun 1948), from Afrikaans apartheid (1929 in a South African socio-political context), literally "separateness," from Dutch apart "separate" (from French àpart ; see apart ) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood . The official English ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN government ▪ Charts show how the apartheid government spent 10 times more on white students than on blacks. system ▪ How do you see this togetherness in relation to hope for change in the apartheid system ? EXAMPLES ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
apartheid \apartheid\ n. [Afrikaans, fr. D. apart apart + -heid -hood.] segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa. Syn: racial segregation the official policy of strict segregation by race practised by the government of the Union of South Africa ...

Usage examples of apartheid.

Slavery, servitude, and all the other guises of the coercive organization of labor-from coolieism in the pacific and peonage in Latin America to apartheid in South Africa-are all essential elements internal to the processes of capitalist development.

The groups Cavanaugh had meant were, presumably, being investigated through Washington: Russian hard-liners, Iranian warmongers, German neo-Nazis, South African white supremacists resenting the end of apartheid, South Americans with a grudge against the United States.

He was also a highly considered journalist and the deputy editor of the Golden City Mail, a large-circulation English-language newspaper which was stubbornly and outspokenly opposed to the Nationalist Afrikaner government of John Vorster and its policy of apartheid.

And likewise no way for the Congolese or their colleagues to determine that antiblack, apartheid South Africa was writing the checks to finance this whole operation.

The blacks of South Africa, once free, did not continue apartheid by voting for whites.

African National Congress brought about an end to apartheid with no violent revolution.

It worked for Nelson Mandela--he and the African National Congress brought about an end to apartheid with no violent revolution.

The chief opposition force to the apartheid regime in South Africa was the African National Congress.

When the world banned weapons exports to South Africa during apartheid, the boys just set about making their own gear and were now exporting more assault weapons and helicopters than the U.

And there you found the reverse apartheid of the drug economy, with the whites, in their frothing melee of malt beer, keeping the given distance from the sober but hot-faced brothers, who tended their Lucozades and Ribenas on the streetside bar.

Apartheid- Afrikaans for "apartness" or "segregation"- means, in theory, that different races should develop separately along their own paths.

There were half a dozen European passengers in the forward end of the bus, and in conformity with the creed of apartheid on public transport, a score or so of Coloureds and natives sat behind the wire-meshed dividing grill.

The biggest and oldest church in town was Dutch Reformed -- very stern, the church of the Boers and apartheid.

By the time he drives to the motor hotel where he is staying, he feels once more the weight of the oppressive apartheid in which he exists.

He has spoken out against apartheid, his country's policy of racial segregation with the minority group of whites in control.