Barrio 601 Words You Need to Know

/ˈbær.i.əʊ/ (noun)

Definition

a Spanish-speaking quarter or district of a city or town in the United States of America in which poor people live or reside in poor conditions, ghetto, inner city, skid row, slum, sector, neighborhood

Example

We often talk about increasing wealth inequality, with the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. That’s certainly a problem, but something we should be even more concerned about is what is happening to our neighborhoods. There are now more extremely poor neighborhoods or barrios in the US and more extremely rich neighborhoods.

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