resegregate

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re- +‎ segregate

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resegregate (third-person singular simple present resegregates, present participle resegregating, simple past and past participle resegregated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To segregate, or become segregated, again.
    • 2007 July 15, Jonathan D. Glater, “School Diversity Based on Income Segregates Some”, in New York Times[1]:
      But school officials have found that the 55,000-student city school district, with Chinese the dominant ethnic group followed by Hispanics, blacks and whites, is resegregating.

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