gentrification

Thursday, 10 Mar 2005 | Word of the Day

gen·tri·fi·ca·tion n.

: the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas (as urban neighborhoods) that often results in the displacement of earlier usually poorer residents

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