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hypergentrification

hypergentrification noun: extreme, excessive gentrification.

Noun

hypergentrification (uncountable)

  1. Extreme, excessive gentrification.
    • Furthermore, with hypergentrification, how many or us would be priced out of the neighborhood?1995, Mark Cramer, Funky Towns USA
    • Brooklyn accumulated its hipness, he says, by avoiding the “gauche” sort of hypergentrification that overwhelmed SoHo — perhaps because it had so much further to come.2009 March 15, Wm. Ferguson, “Where Is the New Brooklyn?”, in New York Times

Origin of hypergentrification

From hyper- + gentrification.

Questions about hypergentrification

What does hypergentrification mean?
Hypergentrification means extreme, excessive gentrification.
What part of speech is hypergentrification?
Hypergentrification is a noun.

Words near hypergentrification in the dictionary

  1. hypergelasts
  2. hypergender
  3. hypergendered
  4. hypergenesis
  5. hypergenometric
  6. hypergentrification
  7. hypergeometric
  8. hypergeometric distribution
  9. hypergeometric distributions
  10. hypergeometric function
  11. hypergeometric functions

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