Usually means: Segregation justified under equal provisions.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. separate but equal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. separate but equal: Infoplease Dictionary
  3. separate but equal: Dictionary.com
  4. Separate But Equal (film), Separate but Equal (film), Separate-but-equal, Separate but equal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. separate but equal: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Separate but Equal: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. separate but equal, Separate but equal: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (Separate but equal)

noun:  a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which nominally guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people.


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