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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

deghettoize en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + ghettoize.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
deghettoized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deghettoized Tense=Past lexicographic
deghettoizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
deghettoizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

deghettoization