apartheidnoun [ U ]
uk/əˈpɑː.taɪt//əˈpɑː.teɪt/us/əˈpɑːr.teɪt//əˈpɑːr.taɪt/(especially in the past in South Africa) a political system in which people of different races are separated:
the long-awaited dismantling (= end) of apartheid
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apparatus
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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