deghettoize en · VERB
Etymology
From de- + ghettoize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove from a ghetto and integrate into the mainstream.
It is not enough to suggest that our theoretical analyses are working in the service of calling attention to these students' marginalized positions or deghettoizing them.
2000, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Rethinking basic writing:Wherever they turned there were agencies that moved to deghettoize them, secularize them, enlighten them.
1989, Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volumes 1-2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| deghettoized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| deghettoized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| deghettoizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| deghettoizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |