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Gentrification Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -tion

Gentrification has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents)

2

The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
restoration
Rhyming Words
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