GENTRIFY

gentrify

(verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations; “gentrify a row of old houses”; “gentrify the old center of town”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

gentrify (third-person singular simple present gentrifies, present participle gentrifying, simple past and past participle gentrified)

(transitive) to renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes

Source: Wiktionary



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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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