ghettoizedadj.
/ˈɡɛtəʊʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈɡɛdoʊˌaɪzd/ That has been placed in a ghetto (in various senses); restricted to an isolated or segregated place, group, or situation.
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1899 Criterion 28 Oct. 15/1 The theatre, every part of it, seemed steeped in Ghettoized Orientalism.
1902 Jewish Herald (Melbourne) 22 Oct. 347/2 Not only has Amsterdam its Jewry, a compact mass, still morally Ghettoised, still all resident a stone's throw from the synagogue, but there is an Amsterdam Jew.
1964 M. A. Galamison in J. H. Clarke Harlem 225 It is a land of ghettoized human beings: men denied creative work.
1981 J. Kogawa in L. Hutcheon & M. Richmond Other Solitudes (1990) 99 Do you know any Japanese-American writers, and do you think that maybe they're less ghettoized than Japanese-Canadian writers?
2006 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 27 Sept. 4 a/2 A disaffected, ghettoized immigrant population.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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