📒 the act or policy of separating people from different groups, for example people of different races, religions or sexes, and treating them in a different way
racial/religious segregation
segregation by age and sex
The social structure was based on the policy of racial segregation.
📒 the act of separating people or things from a larger group
The report recommends segregation of cyclists from both cars and pedestrians.
the segregation of recycling waste into categories