🏚️ Unethical selling practice 🌟 Extremely successful 🏚️ To pressure homeowners

to blockbusting

8.8

To persuade homeowners to sell by scaring them about the neighborhood to make money

verb
/ˈblɑkˌbʌstɪŋ/

Archaic

: persuadir a vender

Real estate agents were fined for blockbusting in several urban neighborhoods during the 1960s.

Examples

They often blockbust neighborhoods to make quick profits.
Laws were introduced to prevent blockbusting and protect homeowners from unethical practices.
The community organized to stop blockbusting and preserve the neighborhood's diversity.
Many agents have blockbusted homes in the area.
In the 1970s, some unethical agents engaged in blockbusting, convincing families to sell their homes by spreading false rumors about neighborhood decline.
Efforts were made in the community to expose blockbusting, as it unfairly targeted vulnerable homeowners for profit.
To combat blockbusting, new regulations were established that mandated transparency in real estate transactions.

Antonyms

to retain

236 3.4

To keep having something such as a job or possession

to hold onto

180 3.0

To keep something and not let it go

How Coercive

to coerce

Offensive

91 6.4

to intimidate

294 4.9

to blockbusting

Archaic

8.8

to pressure

149 4.2

to persuade

472 2.7

to encourage

∞ 2.3

to suggest

∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

blockbust infinitive

blockbusted past

blockbusted past participle

blockbusting present participle

blockbusts third person singular

Etymology

Blockbusting as a verb means persuading homeowners to sell by using fear, literally 'busting' a block and making a neighbourhood break up. The word comes from real estate agents who used rumours and panic to profit, so to blockbust is to push people to sell and change the area's makeup.