especially: one that differs genetically from the parental line because of genetic segregation
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The prefix se- means "apart", so when you segregate something you set it apart from the herd. The word typically means separating something undesirable from the healthy majority. During the apple harvest, damaged fruit is segregated from the main crop and used for cider. In prisons, hardened criminals are segregated from youthful offenders. Lepers used to be segregated from the general population because they were thought to be highly infectious. The opposite of segregate is often integrate, and the two words were in the news almost daily for decades as African-Americans struggled to be admitted into all-white schools and neighborhoods.
Verb The civil rights movement fought against practices that segregated black and white people. Many states at that time continued to segregate public schools.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Boards are required to segregate ballots from any voter who may require a supplemental ballot.cleveland, 27 June 2022 Robb Elementary School, the site of the massacre, was a flashpoint in the local resistance against a white minority rule that used law enforcement and policies to segregate and subjugate Latino and Latinas. Palabra, al, 7 June 2022 The Nigerian regulator only requires custodians to segregate customers’ assets from their own assets. Oluwaseun Adeyanju, Forbes, 14 May 2022 Alongside your calendar, have your daily to-do list but segregate personal and business. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 May 2022 Among other measures, league president Mikel Arriola is also requiring the league’s other 17 teams to segregate its main supporter groups, known as barras, in specific areas of their stadiums that will be closed to minors.Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022 Some countries are now experimenting with ways to segregate medical waste for recycling and safer disposal. Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2022 Foster says the separation is not a matter of wanting to segregate Swifties, but rather of not wanting to completely disappoint them. Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022 Employ microsegmentation to create zones within data centers and cloud environments so as to segregate workloads from one another, thereby strengthening compliance and minimizing the potential for data breaches. Wes Wright, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
Noun
Friendships between people of different races are common until about the age of 10, when children begin to self-segregate. Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022 Other sensitive data, including family trees and DNA data, are stored on segregate systems that are separate from those that house email addresses. Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 5 June 2018 As public schools re-segregate, the rise in charter schools has not helped this trend. Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 17 May 2018 There is also another cultural trend that has led many in our nation to ideologically self-segregate, not based on race, but based on ideology. James Lankford, National Review, 19 Aug. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Latin segregatus, past participle of segregare, from se- apart + greg-, grex herd — more at secede