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resegregate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English segregate English resegregate From re- + segregate.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To segregate, or become segregated, again.
    • 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. 2007 July 15, Jonathan D. Glater, “School Diversity Based on Income Segregates Some”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
resegregates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
resegregating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
resegregated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
resegregated Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

resegregation