(South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
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(by extension) Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.
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(by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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