petty apartheid

1. 1.

   racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places

   Broaderracial segregation

Questions about petty apartheid

What does petty apartheid mean?

petty apartheid means "racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places".

Is petty apartheid a common word?

petty apartheid 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.