Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To set apart in or as if in a ghetto; isolate.
- transitive verb To make into or similar to a ghetto.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to form into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a ghetto.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To put someone in a
ghetto , or toisolate as if in a ghetto. - verb transitive To make a place into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put in a ghetto
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Examples
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Ghettoized Continental Philosophy syllabus Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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Zarcero, The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.
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