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Pregentrified vs Regentrified - What's the difference?

pregentrified | regentrified |

As an adjective pregentrified

is prior to gentrification.

As a verb regentrified is

(regentrify).

pregentrified

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Prior to gentrification.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Mireya Navarro, title=A Lost New York as Seen From Way Out West, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s. }}

    regentrified

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (regentrify)

    • regentrify

    English

    Verb

  • To gentrify again.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 24, author=Marcelle S. Fischler, title=The Heart and Soul of Suburbia, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Huntington regentrified itself and survived,” he said. }}