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How to pronounce ghettoize in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ghettoise
Type of insulate, isolate
Derivation ghetto


The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized.

Examples of ghettoize

ghettoize
First, the people at the ideological extremes of the party have begun to self-ghettoize.
From the sacbee.com
In other words, YouTube plans to ghettoize non-corporate content.
From the infowars.com
Pornographers worry it will ghettoize their sites.
From the sacbee.com
Some legislators and economists are calling for a new policy that recognizes the worker shortage and seeks to integrate foreign laborers rather than ghettoize them.
From the businessweek.com
But the Krauses knew the Nazis had already passed a myriad of laws to harass, ghettoize and impoverish European Jews, who were being brutalized in the streets.
From the washingtonpost.com
Others castigated the editors as following the lead of more-conservative fashion magazines, which habitually ghettoize a large-size population that ought to be featured in every issue.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • Put in a ghetto; "The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized"
  • Ghetto was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. A ghetto is now described as an overcrowded urban area often associated with a specific ethnic or racial population; especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
  • (ghettoization) The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area
  • (ghettoization) Social trends and public policies that lead to geographical concentrations of social groupings, including deprived groups, elderly people, single parents, mentally ill people or ethnic minorities, often in public-sector or social housing estates. ...