释义 |
gentrificationgen‧tri‧fi‧ca‧tion /ˌdʒentrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]  - The rising housing costs are a result of gentrification.
- Boy, could they use a little investment, a little gentrification.
- Have we really moved since the 1840s, when gentrification was seen as the only way to educate the masses?
- The research findings endorse the view that non-family households in general and women in particular are important agents of gentrification.
a gradual process in which an area in bad condition where poor people live is changed by people with more money coming to live there and improving it—gentrify /ˈdʒentrɪfaɪ/ verb [transitive] |