Manhattanizing
Manhattanizing is the present participle and gerund of Manhattanize.
Meaning of Manhattanize
Verb
Manhattanize (third-person singular simple present Manhattanizes, present participle Manhattanizing, simple past and past participle Manhattanized)
- To construct many tall or densely situated buildings in (a city).
- San Francisco's Board of Supervisors last month approved a new zoning law designed to limit the height and size of office towers and to reduce by half the projected employment growth downtown over the next 15 years. ¶ Adoption of the plan came after more than a decade of complaints from San...1985 August 4, Robert Lindsey, “The Struggle to Keep Skylines in Line”, in New York Times
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- What is Manhattanizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Manhattanizing is the present participle and gerund of Manhattanize.
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