arrabalizar
Spanish
Verb
arrabalizar (first-person singular present arrabalizo, first-person singular preterite arrabalicé, past participle arrabalizado)
- (Dominican Republic) Of a city, to expand in a haphazard way with shoddy or cheap construction; to suburbanize.
- 2016 November 1, “La Paola no ha llegado (“Laura ya no vive aquí”)”, in Listin Diario:
- Desconfiamos los unos de los otros en el barrio, el residencial, la torre o la esquina, mientras el país se arrabaliza institucionalmente y si lo duda, mire hacia el semáforo de su esquina.
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Conjugation
- Rule: z becomes a c before e.
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
- 2 Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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