SEGREGATION


Meaning of SEGREGATION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

racial segregation (= when people of different races are kept apart and forced to live, work etc separately )

The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited racial segregation in public buildings.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

legal

Ending legal segregation has not been enough to end segregation itself.

racial

It remains to this day one of the most potent monuments to racial segregation .

Mrs Nkabule has lived her 32 years on the front line of brutal racial and economic segregation .

Legal racial segregation has been outlawed; blacks have the vote; votes are pretty much equal in value.

A Negro dies of heart failure, they blame it on racial segregation .

social

None the less other work has confirmed Pahl's view that inmigration would lead to social segregation .

The civilian crew of the Kora Sea observed strict social segregation , so Hicks and Gaylord played in nearly total silence.

■ NOUN

analysis

To explore the mode of inheritance further we performed a complex segregation analysis .

Assuming genetic influences, the mode of inheritance can be investigated by segregation analysis of pedigree data.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Civil rights protestors called for an end to all segregation .

Legal segregation may be gone, but the idea of segregation survives, as middle class black families shun white areas, preferring to live in suburbs of their own.

Racial segregation in schools still exists in some southern states.

Racial segregation was outlawed by the Supreme Court in 1954.

The US Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Cara recognized it as typical West Riding segregation , the men together, the women likewise.

Peres now has endorsed a plan favored by his assassinated predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, that calls for strict segregation .

Proposals to scatter public housing, thus breaking the segregation pattern, were killed by City Hall.

The segregation of departments according to media, rather than along historical periods, has always been a hallmark of the Louvre.

The need for a policy of segregation was questionable even at the time that the legislation was enacted.

This is because segregation within any given workplace is more severe than that shown by national statistics covering all workplaces.

Warders in riot gear stormed the room after four hours and marched the 12 protesters to a segregation block.

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