Dictionary

ghettoization en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English ghetto Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English ghettoize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English ghettoization From ghettoize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
   • It's all part of a move toward ghettoization, they charge, an attempt to make the poor feel so shamefully unwanted that they will leave the area. 1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader:
2. (countable, uncountable) The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.

Forms

Deriveds

deghettoization

Translations (4)

fr ghettoïsation (Translations) · pl gettoizacja (Translations) · sv gettoisering (Translations) · ca guetització (Translations)