"gentrify" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɹɪ.faɪ/ Audio: En-us-gentrify.ogg [US] Forms: gentrifies [present, singular, third-person], gentrifying [participle, present], gentrified [participle, past], gentrified [past]
Etymology: gentry + -fy Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-}}, {{suffix|en|gentry|fy}} gentry + -fy Head templates: {{en-verb}} gentrify (third-person singular simple present gentrifies, present participle gentrifying, simple past and past participle gentrified)
  1. (transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents). Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Urban studies Derived forms: gentrifier, gentrification Translations (to renovate something, especially housing to make more appealing to the middle classes): gentrificar (Catalan), gentrificere (Danish), keskiluokkaistaa (Finnish), embourgeoiser (French), gentrifizieren (German), dzsentrifikál (Hungarian), gentrificare (Italian), gentrifisere (Norwegian Bokmål), gentrificar (Portuguese), gentrificar (Spanish), gentrifiera (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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