Associations to the word «Ghettoize»

Wiktionary

GHETTOIZE, verb. (transitive) To put someone in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a ghetto.
GHETTOIZE, verb. (transitive) To make a place into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.

Dictionary definition

GHETTOIZE, verb. Put in a ghetto; "The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats