gentrify

Verb

Meaning

renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations

Source: WordNet

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I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience. G-Eazy

gentrify a row of old houses Source: Internet

gentrify the old center of town Source: Internet

“When I heard about him, I had a moment of ‘Oh, my God, they’re gonna gentrify my island,’ ” confides Nancy Santiago Negrón, a vice president at Hispanics in Philanthropy. Source: Internet

There were much smaller concentrations of arts establishments in both gentrifying areas and those with the potential to gentrify. Source: Internet

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