gentrify

gentrify
gentrifier, n.
/jen"treuh fuy'/, v., gentrified, gentrifying.
v.t.
1. to improve (a neighborhood) by gentrification.
v.i.
2. to undergo gentrification: Some neighborhoods gentrify more easily than others.
[1970-75; GENTRY + -FY]

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