Vocabulary
Segregation
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
The act or state of settinh someone or sth apart from others
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- As a way out, worried officials aim to reassure fathers and brothers (mothers rarely matter) by increasing segregation through strict moral policing.
- Whether or not de-segregation has full popular support, this is what their autocratic rulers have decided.
- Despite all efforts to minimise contact between genders, full segregation is proving impossible.
- Attitudes towards females, derived from enforcing school segregation, can show up late in life.
- Changing entrenched consumer habits needs sustained awareness drives, while investment in proper garbage collection and waste segregation is essential to stem the tide of plastic litter.
Synonyms
dissociation, sorting out
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