gentrificationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdʒen.trɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒen.trə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/the process by which a place, especially part of a city, changes from being a poor area to a richer one, where people from a higher social class live:
Ordinary working people have been priced out of East London by gentrification.
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Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- marry
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- snob
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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