Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ghettoize \Ghet"to*ize\, v. t. to form into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a ghetto.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put someone in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a ghetto. 2 (context transitive English) To make a place into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.
WordNet
v. put in a ghetto; "The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized" [syn: ghettoise]
Usage examples of "ghettoize".
I hated the neighborhood, the pettiness of it, the closeted, cloistered, blinkered, racist, philistine, ghettoized narrowness of Queens and environs.
The old model of drug development often compartmentalized these functions, ghettoizing data that might have been useful to other researchers.
Allahar point out) are becoming increasingly ghettoized in retail and service sectors, where they endlessly lift and carry, stock shelves, push brooms, bag groceries, and flip burgers, gaining no skills and seeing no path of advancement ahead of them.