noun. An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.

noun. A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.

noun. The condition of being separated from others; segregation.

noun. segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

noun. the official policy of strict segregation by race practised by the government of the Union of South Africa up to 1993.

noun. The policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.

noun. Any similar policy of racial separation.

noun. a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa