Definition of "ghettoizes" [ghettoizes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ghettoize. (verb)

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• "Knoxville's mission district "ghettoizes" our homeless and mentally ill Chicks and Guns"
• "So when a swing voter turns on a television and sees someone attacking a president who is a little busy figuring out how to solve big global problems (Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economy, to name a few) for what is perceived as a community specific issue, it ghettoizes the community in question, in this instance the gay community."
• "The reason a handful of very popular sitcoms still use canned laughter—and the reason why veteran network leaders always want to use laugh tracks, even though doing so immediately ghettoizes their programming—is due to a specific assumption about human nature."