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  • verb Alternative spelling of ghettoize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put in a ghetto

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Examples

  • Further, faith schools may have a tendency to 'ghettoise' communities, and they may teach as fact notions with no foundations in science or history, without supplying the equipment to evaluate those notions critically. '

    Church Schools: a National Vision 2006

  • Further, faith schools may have a tendency to 'ghettoise' communities, and they may teach as fact notions with no foundations in science or history, without supplying the equipment to evaluate those notions critically. '

    Church Schools: a National Vision 2006

  • The proposal elicited a massive amount of interest, and protest, as the adult entertainment industry expressed concerns that the move would 'ghettoise' their industry and lead to further regulation and censorship, while many conservative and religious groups expressed concerns that the TLD would make pornography more prevalent and harder to control.

    TechCentral.ie - Answers + Analysis + Advice 2010

  • Against the background of communities divided by official multiculturalism, which he concedes has helped to "ghettoise" people, his warning of rising tensions could yet prove a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Eye on Britain 2008

  • MoTD bosses should surely ghettoise him in his own branded section of the programme, a bit like "Lorraine", Lorraine Kelly's show-within-a-show on Daybreak (GMTV as was).

    It's tight at the top of The Plonkership 2010

  • Why do Asians tend to ghettoise themselves, to live in large communities?

    A good Harding fisking... 2005

  • Why do Asians tend to ghettoise themselves, to live in large communities?

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • The editor of a new Soundings ebook on the radical future of the under-30s, Ben Little, notes that his generation is all too aware of the way that social networks can cosily ghettoise as much as expand horizons.

    Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk Libby Brooks 2010

  • The archbishop said it was necessary to assert the "rationality of belief in God" and the right for religion to play a part in public life and policy-making in the face of those who were trying to ghettoise religion in a "ferocious and insidious way."

    The Christian Post RSS Feed 2010

  • We wouldn't have gang problems if we didn't ghettoise minorities into segregated neighbourhoods of crime and filth.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

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