Apartheid
a - part - heid [uh-pahrt-heyt, hahyt]
n.
- An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa involving political, legal and economic discrimination against non-whites
- A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
- The condition of being separated from others; segregation
[origin: 1945-50;
<Afrikaans, equiv. to apart -apart + -heid -hood]