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 to isolate 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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  • 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.

    Page 4 2009

  • 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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