apartheid

IPA: ʌpˈɑrtaɪt

(South Africa, historical) The policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
(by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
(by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.

To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.

Examples of "apartheid" in Sentences

The use of the term apartheid actually contributes to one of the primary reasons why the occupation continues.
He said that the United Nations should not be afraid to use the term apartheid to describe what is happening in occupied Palestine.
The paragraph does not refer to Israel by name, but Palestinian activists at the conference have been using the term apartheid to describe its treatment of their countrymen.
The party, which has been in office since 1948 when it gave the world the term apartheid, is now trying to win black support to challenge the far more popular African National Congress.
We want to know - if life itself was threatened, as apartheid threatened the very existence of those who are black, was it not imperative that everything be done to end apartheid~ and if necessary by force of arms!
The intersection of physical and societal separations and barriers have justly earned the term apartheid, referring to an historically parallel racist regime in South Africa against the indigenous Black population of that country.