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jen-truh-fuh-KAY-shuhn
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migration of middle or high class persons to a low or working class neighborhood; the restoration of a dilapidated community
1981Rabbit Is Rich...the old retired people are being forced out by gentrification, the middle class returning to the cities.1997Plum IslandThere has been some gentrification in recent years, boutiques, trendy restaurants, and all that, but Claudio's remains pretty much the same as it was when I was a kid.1999The Last DanceThere were sections of Diamondback that long ago had been sucked into the quagmire of hopeless poverty, where any thoughts of gentrification were mere pipe dreams.Labels: Ed McBain, John Updike, Nelson Demille
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