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  • verb Present participle of ghettoise.

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Examples

  • Precisely because this task must be carried out by government as a whole, since 1994 to date, our government has determined that the work of "co-ordination and monitoring" should be located in the Presidency, to avoid the "ghettoising" of the gender question.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Precisely because this task must be carried out by government as a whole, since 1994 to date, our government has determined that the work of "co-ordination and monitoring" should be located in the Presidency, to avoid the "ghettoising" of the gender question.

    ANC Today 2007

  • * 'ghettoising' gender by focusing only on numbers;

    ANC Today 2007

  • There's celebrating curves; then there's ghettoising, even fetishising.

    Why Ed reminds women of every bad ex-boyfriend Barbara Ellen 2010

  • For one thing, I was wary of ghettoising myself; for another, I had issues with the way the group had been set up.

    Space: the final frontier 2008

  • Or that providing the blind and handicapped with such shoddy options is tantamount to discrimination, ghettoising them in the mid-20th century?

    Archive 2010-07-01 Stroppy Author 2010

  • P.S.: CNN stop ghettoising the comments and post them.

    Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008

  • Or that providing the blind and handicapped with such shoddy options is tantamount to discrimination, ghettoising them in the mid-20th century?

    How to read a publishing contract (17) Stroppy Author 2010

  • So in preference to singing yet more praises of the gifted Annie Proulx, I'll share an inside glimpse of how publishers are complicit in ghettoising not only women writers but women readers into this implicitly lesser cultural tier.

    I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it 2010

  • I have never been one for ghettoising myself within trans-specific environments, on or offline; preferring instead to take my chances in the big bad outside world on my own.

    Trans Community Conference 2008 2008

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