gentrify

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɹɪ.faɪ/

Verb

transitive

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

Japanese Meaning

住宅や地区を改装し、中産階級に魅力的な状態に整えること。 / 再開発を通じて既存住民が生活圏から締め出される可能性を伴う現象を含む場合もある。

What is this buttons?

Developers began to gentrify the riverside neighborhood, renovating old warehouses into luxury lofts and driving up rents.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

開発業者は川沿いの地区を高級化し始め、古い倉庫を高級ロフトに改装して家賃を押し上げた。

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Sense（1）

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

gentrifies

（ present singular third-person ）

gentrifying

（ participle present ）

gentrified

（ participle past ）

gentrified

（ past ）

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