segregated society

collocation in English

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segregated
adjective
uk
/ˈseɡ.rɪ.ɡeɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈseɡ.rə.ɡeɪ.t̬ɪd/
kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofsegregatedandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is asegregatedsocietyof shop assistants, warehousemen and clerks.
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The father, on the other hand, because he is in a miners' approved society—asegregatedsociety—gets nothing but statutory benefits.
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If a society is asegregatedsocietylike my own, with its members receiving constant wages and with not much unemployment among them, the contribution income is assured each week.
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The sorority was important for supporting women in college, career and community life in a heavilysegregatedsociety.
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It was important for supporting women in college, career and community life in asegregatedsociety.
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He has since achieved international recognition for his leadership as president in rebuilding the country's oncesegregatedsociety.
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Growing up in asegregatedsociety, you couldn't have thought that that was the way it was going to be.
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We insist that educationally and socially, we maintain asegregatedsociety...
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They are underserved by thesegregatedsociety.
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Manlys ideas about interracial relationships were controversial in thesegregatedsociety.
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Because of earning lower wages in asegregatedsociety, members of the congregation chose to live on bread and molasses to raise enough money to complete the church.
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