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ghettoisation

ghettoisation is the alternative spelling of ghettoization.

Meaning of ghettoization

Noun

ghettoization (countable and uncountable, plural ghettoizations)

  1. The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
    • It's all part of a move toward ghettoization, they charge, an attempt to make the poor feel so shamefully unwanted that they will leave the area.1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader
  2. The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.

Origin of ghettoisation

From ghetto + -isation.

Questions about ghettoisation

What is ghettoisation the alternative spelling of?
Ghettoisation is the alternative spelling of ghettoization.

Words near ghettoisation in the dictionary

  1. ghettoed
  2. ghettoes
  3. ghettoest
  4. ghettofabulous
  5. ghettoing
  6. ghettoisation
  7. ghettoise
  8. ghettoised
  9. ghettoises
  10. ghettoish
  11. ghettoising

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