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gentrification /ˌdʒɛntrɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste: an area undergoing rapid gentrification...- 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.
1.1The process of making a person or activity more refined or polite: football 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?
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