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   gen·tri·fy

   /ˈjentrəˌfī/

   verb

   • 1. change the character of (a poor urban area) through wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process: "formerly bohemian districts are being gentrified"
   • ▪ (of a poor urban area) change in character through wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process: "the old pattern of rich outer and poor inner suburbs is being reversed as old inner-city neighborhoods gentrify"
   • ▪ make more refined, polite, or respectable: "there has been an attempt to gentrify the game, making it more attractive to the middle class"

   Word Origin 1970s: from gentry + -fy.

   Derivatives

   • 1. gentrifier noun

   Scrabble Points: 15

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