apartheid Definition

apartheid
noun

1. An official state policy, especially that operating in South Africa until 1992, of keeping different races segregated in such areas as housing, education, sport, etc, together with the privileging of one race, in the case of South Africa the White minority, over any others.
2. Any segregationist policy.

Example: Traditionally working men's clubs operate gender apartheid

Etymology: 1940s: Afrikaans, from apart apart + -heid hood.