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apartheid
noun
[ əˈpɑːtheɪt ]
• (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
Origin:
1940s: from Afrikaans, literally ‘separateness’, from Dutch apart ‘separate’ + -heid (equivalent of -hood).
