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ghettoize

[ get-oh-ahyz ]

verb (used with or without object)

, ghet·to·ized, ghet·to·iz·ing.
  1. to place or collect in a ghetto:

    New immigrants still tended to ghettoize in the cities.



ghettoize

/ ˈɡɛtəʊˌaɪz /

verb

  1. tr to confine or restrict to a particular area, activity, or category

    to ghettoize women as housewives

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌghettoiˈzation, noun
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Other Words From

  • ghetto·i·zation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ghettoize1

First recorded in 1935–40; ghetto + -ize
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Example Sentences

In his memoir, Epps writes about “the dark secret of American theater,” describing the “ghettoizing of artists of color in our supposedly highly evolved, liberal and openminded field.”

I did not want to be ghettoized into writing about war for the rest of my life.

From Salon

The social spiral in ghettoized neighborhoods hasn’t been quite that dire — but then, Anthony hardly needs to underline the connection.

But until the American experiment, Jews in the diaspora were marginalized, ghettoized, persecuted and eventually converted, exiled or killed.

No one was ghettoized by age or experience.

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