Definition of gentrification in English:
gentrification
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noun
1The process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.
‘an area undergoing rapid gentrification’- ‘signs of creeping gentrification are evident’
- ‘He is writing a book on gentrification in New York.’
- ‘Many of the city's 120 neighborhoods are experiencing gentrification.’
- ‘She notices the double-edged sword happening locally with the growing gentrification.’
- ‘The Bowery is well on its way to gentrification.’
- ‘This award-winning architect engages in community work without causing gentrification to occur.’
- ‘The gentrification of urban space was a by-product of global capitalism's retooling from the Industrial Age to the Information Age.’
- ‘The women have begun offering workshops in how to protest raised property taxes that result from gentrification.’
- ‘The arrival of a coffee house on the corner of an inner city street means that gentrification is underway or has nearly been completed.’
- ‘Once dependably seedy, it has been transformed by the forces of gentrification.’
- ‘In this movie, he addresses the gentrification that has overtaken his old neighborhood without being clearly anti.’
- 1.1The process of making someone or something more refined, polite, or respectable.‘soccer has undergone gentrification’
- ‘Miss Havisham's plan for his gentrification’
- ‘In "Entrepreneurs as Aristocrats," he examines values transmission, the kind which occurred in the gentrification of businessmen.’
- ‘Their gentrification was reflected in how they dressed, dined, performed, and were entertained, in a selection of social settings.’
- ‘If great novels defy categorization, then in the game of literary gentrification, which writers can transcend genre while still employing its tropes, and which cannot?’
- ‘Since World War II, there has been an overall gentrification or affluentization of the population, which is sometimes called "embourgoisement."’
- ‘Denim is undergoing an era of gentrification—and this has been promoted and picked up by designers and high-street stores alike.’
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