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separatism

 
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    The policy or practice of political, legal, economic, or social discrimination, as against the members of a minority group: apartheid, segregation. See include/exclude.

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The ambition of a minority to form its own sovereign state. See nationalism, secession.

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Common misspelling(s) of separatism

  • seperatism

 
 

 

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