ghettoize

ghettoize
/get"oh uyz'/, v.t., v.i., ghettoized, ghettoizing.
to place or collect in a ghetto: New immigrants still tended to ghettoize in the cities.
Also, esp. Brit., ghettoise.
[1935-40; GHETTO + -IZE]

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