gentrifyverb [ T often passive ]
uk/ˈdʒen.trɪ.faɪ/us/ˈdʒen.trə.faɪ/disapprovingto change a place from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there:
The area where I grew up has been all modernized and gentrified, and has lost all its old character.
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Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- marry
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- snob
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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gentrification
noun [ U ] uk/ˌdʒen.trɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒen.trə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the process by which an area is gentrified