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"Ghetto" Definition

noun

A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination.
An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: "trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” ( Diane Weathers).
An isolated group .
A situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity .

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