Gentrifies

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What do we mean by gentrifies?

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)

What people who have lived in a place for more than 5 years call people who have lived in a place for less than 5 years. Urban Dictionary

A puritan conservative who pretends that is a 'hipster' Urban Dictionary

Sissified, punk used to describe someone unaccustomed to frank discussions, particularly a man who is made uncomfortable by mild hostility, a fop Urban Dictionary

A word used by people who insist their neighborhoods can never change to disparage new construction and change in the composition of the neighborhood. Usually accompanies by NIMBYISM. Typically, the cause of this is either being unwilling to accept new development, and/or not realizing that when new houses are built for the rich, their old houses open up for everyone else. Urban Dictionary

When people try to make somebody a part of their community, they dont need it to gentrify, it's no way to repay them. People should have as much involvement in the decision of what goes where in the area they live as a developer or anybody else involved in a decision, even if they dont pay to build it. The king is as in need of his subjects as the subjects are in need of him sort of thing. The same applies with music or anything else somebody wants to gentrify. Urban Dictionary

A self made hipster that maintains hood tendencies, despite being out of his element Urban Dictionary

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The word "gentrifies" in example sentences

Everything in New York City gentrifies based on how close it is to reliable public transportation and how many stops your train is from Manhattan. ❋ David Serchuk (2011)

The arty potters wheel types are all Liberals as are most of the gentrifies. ❋ Newmania (2008)

But the more the Bowery gentrifies, the less room there is for people like Ms. Degnore. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My little spot has remained pretty stable for the four years I've occupied it, as far as demography goes; as soon as it gentrifies further, we'll be unable to afford it. ❋ Book Nerd (2008)

But its just a matter of time before El Sereno gentrifies and yuppies realize the great real estate values close to town. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Somewhat less lovely than its upscale neighbor, Cambridge but with lower rents, Somerville used to be renowned for crime and nicknamed "Slummerville," but its reputation and priorities have been changing as it gentrifies. ❋ By JOHN TIERNEY (2011)

Certain parties populate an urban neighborhood and then others follow until it becomes upper class, it gentrifies/yuppifies (a good read here on this subject). ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Freq" is an odd ball collection, encapsulating the themes of the ugly struggle of English coal miners back in the 80s, that gentrifies the true oblique nature of this incredible talent, certainly the schizoid behavior had something to do with it (such as locking himself in a room dressed in the uniform of a WWI fighter ace). ❋ Unknown (2009)

At an earlier meeting last week, Niederman had called the project "another development that gentrifies a community that is suffering already from a lack of housing." ❋ By Andy Campbell (2009)

I can now go into Buddy Guy’s Legends on my campus and enjoy music past midnight at least one time before my college, Columbia College, successfully gentrifies the club like New York University gentrified the Bottom Line. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"This neighborhood used to be [so real] before all those gentrifiers moved in." (Generally said by someone who [grew] up in [the suburbs], probably in a different state). ❋ Baltimore (2015)

I was a gentrifier in [Williamsburg]. Like the maligned hipsters, I used my parents’ savings to secure a place to live. I wanted grocery stores that carried organic products like Horizon milk for $6 per half-gallon, and overpriced but [aesthetically] satisfying coffee shops like El [Beit]. I needed expensive boutiques, otherwise I would have felt bad for having left Manhattan. ❋ Compay (2010)

Don't let the [flannel] [fool] you; at heart he's a gentrified [little girl]. ❋ Tom Ballard (2008)

"I can't believe developers tried to build a new apartment in the one part of [my city] that hasn't been [zoned] for single-family housing. I can't believe capitalism would [gentrify] the poor people out of their homes!" ❋ Pizzaslayer111 (2020)

[The king] thoughts his subjects were the only people who needed [permission] to do anything, so he went ahead and tried to [gentrify] their lives for them. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

Im a [genuine] [gentrified gangster], find me at the [farmers market] ❋ Carlo Blanco (2019)

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