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Gentrification vs Annexation - What's the difference?

gentrification | annexation |

As nouns the difference between gentrification and annexation

is that gentrification is the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents while annexation is addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.

gentrification

English

(wikipedia gentrification)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.

    • Related terms

    * degentrification

    See also

    * gentrify * gentry

    annexation

    English

    (wikipedia annexation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
  • (legal) A legal merging of a territory into another body.

    • Synonyms

    * annexion (obsolete)

    Antonyms

    * separation