# ghettoization

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
2. The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.

## Etymology
From ghettoize + -ation.

## Source
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