de facto segregation

1. 1.

   segregation (especially in schools) that happens in fact although not required by law

   Broadersegregation

Questions about de facto segregation

What does de facto segregation mean?

de facto segregation means "segregation (especially in schools) that happens in fact although not required by law".

Is de facto segregation a common word?

de facto segregation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.