EGAVE

gentrification

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.
  2. noun A geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.
  3. noun The relocation of a white person into a predominantly non-white residential community.

Similar words

degentrification regentrification urban renewal urban regeneration reurbanization greisenisation urban renew reterritorialization rurbanization redevelopment

Often followed by

of and in is has process as that was

Word family

gentrifications

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