segregated
Americanadjective
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characterized by or practicing racial segregation.
a segregated school system.
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restricted to one group, especially exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership.
segregated neighborhoods.
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maintaining separate facilities for members of different, especially racially different, groups.
segregated education.
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discriminating against a group, especially on the basis of race.
a segregated economy.
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set apart.
Other Word Forms
- nonsegregated adjective
- segregatedly adverb
- segregatedness noun
Etymology
Origin of segregated
Example Sentences
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The system will also keep chat segregated by age group.
From Barron's
She and the other interned women were categorised and segregated.
From BBC
The civil rights leader was born in 1941 in segregated Greenville, S.C., and rose to prominence alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times
He was allowed just one hour a day for exercise, by himself in the wing's segregated courtyard.
From BBC
In the 1960s, the median black girl living in a segregated black neighborhood received a name that was only twice as common among black girls as among white girls.
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