Definition of "ghettoize" [ghet•to•ize]

• To set apart in or as if in a ghetto; isolate. (verb-transitive)
• To make into or similar to a ghetto: "He left a city ghettoized and strangled by highways and the auto” ( New York). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Where do you get the term ghettoize as you use it above?"
• "The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves."
• "Zarcero, The expats who don't reset their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves."