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segregation
[ seg-ri-gey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group:
gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.
- the state or condition of being segregated, set apart, separated, or restricted to one group:
Segregation on buses meant that the seats at the front were reserved for white passengers.
the segregation of private clubs.
- something segregated, or set apart.
- Genetics. the separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis. Compare law of segregation.
segregation
/ ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən /
noun
- the act of segregating or state of being segregated
- sociol the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group
- genetics the separation at meiosis of the two members of any pair of alleles into separate gametes See also Mendel's laws
- metallurgy the process in which a component of an alloy or solid solution separates in small regions within the solid or on the solid's surface
segregation
- The policy and practice of imposing the separation of races. In the United States, the policy of segregation denied African-Americans their civil rights and provided inferior facilities and services for them, most noticeably in public schools ( see Brown versus Board of Education), housing, and industry. ( See integration , National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , and separate but equal .)
Derived Forms
- ˌsegreˈgational, adjective
Other Words From
- segre·gation·al adjective
- anti·segre·gation noun adjective
- nonseg·re·gation noun
- reseg·re·gation noun
- unseg·re·gation·al adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of segregation1
Example Sentences
By adding low-income units to these areas, it would lessen a pattern of racial and income segregation that a city-funded report determined single-family zoning plays a key part in maintaining.
“We want to make sure that we are able to break the curse around the decades-long segregation of Black and brown communities in Los Angeles,” said Estuardo Mazariegos, a co-director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, a group that advocates for low-income communities.
Gauff's response drew on her family's experience of the move away from racial segregation in the United States.
Their appeal asked the justices to either throw out the state court ruling entirely or instead order the “segregation of affected provisional ballots” so they can be counted separately.
The end of slavery gave way to laws that denied Black people in the U.S. basic rights, enforced racial segregation, and subjected them to horrific violence.
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