Usually means: Renovate urban areas, displacing residents.
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  1. gentrify: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentrify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gentrify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. gentrify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gentrify: Wiktionary
  9. gentrify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gentrify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gentrify: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. gentrify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. gentrify: FreeDictionary.org
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  18. gentrify: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. gentrify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gentrify)

verb:  (transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).

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