desegregation
pronunciation
How to pronounce desegregation in British English:
UK [ˌdi:ˌseɡrɪ'ɡeɪʃn]
How to pronounce desegregation in American English:
US [ˌdiˌseɡrɪ'ɡeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
Word Origin
- desegregation (n.)
- 1935, American English, from de- "do the opposite of" + segregation in the racial sense.
Example
- 1. Portfolio desegregation in emerging market investments .
- 2. Fly in the ointment : school segregation and desegregation in the ohio valley .
- 3. He was the true liberal who led the desegregation of the chicago schools back in the 1950s , when the kennedy brothers were still hedging on issues of civil rights .
- 4. The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association , as in society or an organization ; desegregation .
- 5. Many districts are actually going backwards , as charles clotfelter of duke university documented in a 2004 book , " after brown : the rise and retreat of school desegregation " .