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segregated

[seg-ri-gey-tid]

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adjective

characterized by or practicing racial segregation: a segregated school system.

restricted to one group, especially exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership: segregated neighborhoods.

maintaining separate facilities for members of different, especially racially different, groups: segregated education.

discriminating against a group, especially on the basis of race: a segregated economy.

set apart.

Origin:
1645–55; segregate + -ed²

Related forms

seg·re·gat·ed·ly, adverb

seg·re·gat·ed·ness, noun

non·seg·re·gat·ed, adjective

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For black patients, they were welcome alternatives to being treated in neglected corners of segregated hospitals.

Our public schools are more segregated today than at any time in the last three decades.

The young find integration harder when they grow up in segregated communities.

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For black patients, they were welcome alternatives to being treated in neglected corners of segregated hospitals.

Our public schools are more segregated today than at any time in the last three decades.

The young find integration harder when they grow up in segregated communities.

Though they may blend anonymously with higher castes on city streets, they can't escape segregated housing.

At its center, recyclable waste is segregated and organic waste is composted.

McCormack notes the plight of black farmers in this relentlessly segregated state.

Even when played alone, videogames do not form a bubble segregated from the other forces in the world.

The crowd was reasonably racially integrated for a town that is specially and socially quite segregated.

In the big cities, fear of crime has pushed the rich into the segregated world of walled condominiums.

So, what's special about this is that the dark matter and hot gas have segregated.

Tabler himself has been segregated from the general population since his calling spree.

We need segregated buses–it was invading space and stuff.

At polling stations long segregated queues, with many women in their finest saris, waited patiently to vote.

They do not wish to live in strictly segregated cities or nervous, gated suburbs.

As well as schools, transport, businesses and hospitals were segregated.

From her first day in the corps, though, she had to bear the humiliations of a segregated military.

Read about the childhoods of two men living in a segregated land.

Jews never physically segregated menstruating women from the general population.

Frustrated by the segregated shoreline, black residents stormed the beaches and survived brutal attacks on.

Nearly all blocks and the neighborhoods they are in tend to be segregated.

Not to mention keeping him segregated from a herd that would have driven him out or left him to die years ago.

They face police abuse and hostile speech from public officials, and many live in segregated housing or camps.

He gave local authorities four months to bring in segregated collection.

On ultra-Orthodox segregated buses, women must sit at the back.

She was one of the first black entertainers to refuse to play before segregated audiences.

He suggests that the alkyl-methoxypyrazine molecules may be sticking to the aluminium and thus being segregated from the wine.

Its time for the economist to stop treating evyrone who don't want to accomodate segregated societies as bigots.

These segregated colonies are in each main district/sector.

Politics of an independent country is done in an environment where foreigners are completely segregated and eliminated.

Cultural differentiation contributes to individual preferences for segregated communities.

Furthermore they were segregated and usually reduced to becoming cooks etc.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.

to require, often with force, the separation of (a specific racial, religious, or other group) from the general body of society.

verb (used without object)

to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.

to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.

Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.

noun

a segregated thing, person, or group.

Origin:
1400–50 in sense “segregated”; 1535–45 as transitive v.; late Middle English segregat < Latin sēgregātus (past participle of sēgregāre to part from the flock), equivalent to sē- se- + greg- (stem of grex flock) + -ātus -ate¹; see gregarious

Related forms

seg·re·ga·ble

[seg-ri-guh-buhl] , adjective

seg·re·ga·tive, adjective

non·seg·re·ga·ble, adjective

non·seg·re·ga·tive, adjective

re·seg·re·gate, verb, -gat·ed, -gat·ing.

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un·seg·re·ga·ble, adjective

un·seg·re·gat·ing, adjective

un·seg·re·ga·tive, adjective

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Antonyms
1. integrate.

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Word Origin & History

segregate

1540s, from L. segregatus, pp. of segregare "separate from the flock, isolate, divide," from *se gregare, from se "apart from" (see secret) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock." Originally often with reference to the religious notion of separating the flock of the godly from sinners.

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