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  • noun Plural form of ghetto.

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Examples

  • Most Jews were supposed to live in ghettoes in Russia, which ruled Ukraine.

    Dan Edelstyn: My quest for the family spirit Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • Is it troubling that Abba, Vitka, and Ruzka left members of their own families behind in ghettoes that would eventually be taken by the Nazis?

    The Avengers by Rich Cohen: Questions 2000

  • And if their need is great-if in ghettoes and concentration camps, on homeless vessels wandering the seas and on the Shanghai waterfront they suffer-their influence for good in the troubled affairs of the nations at this time is also very great.

    Anti-Semitism 1939

  • The segregation of voters into ghettoes is required by one of the Democrats’ favorite laws: the Voting Rights Act. They well and truly hosed themselves here.

    Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState 2010

  • She will lampoon "Cameron's stupendously inane soundbite about a security fightback being followed by a social fightback" and claim the prime minister's vision for dealing with socially excluded people is "the idea of ghettoes, where the undeserving poor can be kept and contained through heavy policing, CCTV surveillance and the use of benefits as a stick to intimidate."

    Green party leader seeks to woo Liberal Democrats 2011

  • Aimed at black audiences, blaxploitation movies with their violent tales of drugs and crime in the ghettoes were a creation of the early 1970s.

    Black Dynamite 2010

  • In the northern states, blacks were generally permitted to vote and had access to most public accommodations, but were forced by racial covenants and restrictive laws to live in ghettoes.

    Facing the Demon Head On: Institutional Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex 2000

  • Italy is the only country in Europe outside those in the Eastern part where the so-called ghettoes are populated by native Jews.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • You mean there are to be "no go" areas or "ghettoes" where Jews are to be forbidden to own land in these areas?

    Robert Eisenman: Fisk Is Wrong on West Bank 2008

  • There was a risk that some areas would seem like "ghettoes" compared to others, he said, although this was not necessarily a bad thing as it would create pressure on politicians to spend money on improving the worse-off areas.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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