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deghettoize

deghettoize verb: to remove from a ghetto and integrate into the mainstream.

Verb

deghettoize (third-person singular simple present deghettoizes, present participle deghettoizing, simple past and past participle deghettoized)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a ghetto and integrate into the mainstream.
    • Wherever they turned there were agencies that moved to deghettoize them, secularize them, enlighten them.1989, Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volumes 1-2
    • It is not enough to suggest that our theoretical analyses are working in the service of calling attention to these students' marginalized positions or deghettoizing them.2000, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Rethinking basic writing

Forms of deghettoize

third-person singular presentdeghettoizes
present participledeghettoizing
past participledeghettoized
pastdeghettoized

Origin of deghettoize

From de- + ghettoize.

Questions about deghettoize

What does deghettoize mean?
Deghettoize means to remove from a ghetto and integrate into the mainstream.
What part of speech is deghettoize?
Deghettoize is a verb.
What is the past tense of deghettoize?
The past tense of deghettoize is deghettoized.

Words near deghettoize in the dictionary

  1. degging
  2. deghan
  3. Deghand
  4. deghans
  5. deghettoization
  6. deghettoize
  7. deghettoized
  8. deghettoizes
  9. deghettoizing
  10. deghost
  11. deghosted

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