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What does ghettoize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To put (someone) in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a ghetto.
  2. (transitive) To make (a place) into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.
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To ghettoize the public service geographically, in my opinion, is appalling shortsighted.
Others castigated the editors as following the lead of more-conservative fashion magazines, which habitually ghettoize a large-size population that ought to be featured in every issue.
In a sexist, thoughtless, simple-minded story, he found yet a new way to ghettoize actresses in Hollywood.
Today, when the small screen is a viable stage for the caliber of great performances once reserved for the big screen, it seems passé to ghettoize television performances.
The Bloc would like to ghettoize French and isolate Quebec linguistically by disregarding the situation in the other provinces.
Not that Sylvia Plath needs the help, although her status as the archetypal Wronged Woman has managed both to canonize and to ghettoize her.

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