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gentrify

[ jen-truh-fahy ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, gen·tri·fied, gen·tri·fy·ing.

to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
to conform to an upper- or middle-class lifestyle; make appealing to those with more affluent tastes:
Fish and chips have been gentrified.

, gen·tri·fied, gen·tri·fy·ing.

to undergo this type of change:
Some neighborhoods gentrify more quickly than others.

First recorded in 1970–75; gentry + -fy

Things rapidly gentrify around those couples, and then the next round begins in a new neighborhood a couple of years later.

Jessegate is just the latest, and I would argue inevitable, setback in the centuries-long quest to gentrify overalls.

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