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# How to pronounce "upzone" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/ʌpzɒʊn/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **up·zone**

## Meaning & Usage

### VERB
- To rezone for more intensive use.
  - *Example*: "For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone."

### Example Sentences
- "For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone."
- "upzone trying to respond to this by saying we need to add a housing we think of nimbyism as a suburbance phenomena but you ask anybody in parts of Brooklyn"
- "Wellington upzoned and expanded that blue one by a factor of four in recent years. The green one didn't grow. In"

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "upzone" in real conversation:

### Example 1
*Accent: US*
> "don't focus on um one is families and um you saw from the report that upzone trying to respond to this by saying we need to add a housing we think of nimbyism as a suburbance phenomena but you ask anybody in parts of Brooklyn"
- **Watch at 57:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsMmLN-EVY&t=3459s)

### Example 2
*Accent: AUS*
> "Wellington upzoned and expanded that blue one by a factor of four in recent years. The green one didn't grow. In"
- **Watch at 11:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=687s)

### Example 3
*Accent: AUS*
> "99% of upzoned houses appreciated by 6% on average."
- **Watch at 27:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1666s)

### Example 4
> "The next solution is to upzone around transit."
- **Watch at 33:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSEkM4okFu8&t=1988s)

### Example 5
*Accent: AUS*
> "Has anyone heard that Auckland upzoned and it was a major success?"
- **Watch at 24:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1499s)

### Example 6
*Accent: AUS*
> "And in some specific models, uh you can upzone a site that actually gives you one more reason to wait for the future"
- **Watch at 17:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1051s)

### Example 7
*Accent: AUS*
> "want it to do, and we upzone in the gray, and then we upzone in the blue, and we see that people build where we"
- **Watch at 30:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1837s)

### Example 8
*Accent: AUS*
> "developed properties decrease in value relative to similar dwellings that were not upzoned, showing that large-scale upzoning had an immediate depreciative"
- **Watch at 26:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1618s)

### Example 9
*Accent: AUS*
> "And this line here is the line of best fit of the relative price growth of the upzoned houses with intensitivity"
- **Watch at 28:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1692s)

### Example 10
*Accent: AUS*
> "A key point is that in these models that probably represent the developer's decision, you can upzone that boosts the profit"
- **Watch at 17:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YH56iyEw0&t=1037s)


## How to Pronounce "upzone"

- **Syllables**: up · zone
- **IPA**: `/ʌpzɒʊn/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[upzones](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upzones), [upzoned](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upzoned), [upzoning](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upzoning)


## Related Pronunciations

[upbore](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upbore), [upborne](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upborne), [upcode](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upcode), [upcome](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upcome), [upcore](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upcore), [updome](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/updome), [updove](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/updove), [uphole](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/uphole)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “upzone”?
“upzone” is pronounced /ʌpzɒʊn/ (up · zone). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “upzone”?
“upzone” has 2 syllables: up · zone.

### What does “upzone” mean?
To rezone for more intensive use.

### How can I hear “upzone” used in real sentences?
This page has 13 real-world video examples of “upzone” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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