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RACIAL SEGREGATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does racial segregation mean?
• RACIAL SEGREGATION (noun)
The noun RACIAL SEGREGATION has 1 sense:
1. segregation by race
Familiarity information: RACIAL SEGREGATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Segregation by race
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("racial segregation" is a kind of...):
segregation; separatism (a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racial segregation"):
petty apartheid (racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places)
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