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单词 dispossession
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Definition of dispossession in English:

dispossession

noun dɪspəˈzɛʃ(ə)nˌdɪspəˈzɛʃən
mass noun
  • The action of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions.

    the global impact of poverty and dispossession
    reparation for the victims of land dispossession
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He calls attention to the way in which racism against blacks is intertwined with economic dispossession.
    • The results have been traumatic: poverty, cultural dislocation, dispossession, and disease have taken a deadly toll.
    • The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms.
    • Dispossession was further compounded by discriminatory legislation designed to control the native Catholic population.
    • Together, they have survived displacement, prejudice, and dispossession, but at a cost to their humanity.
    • Faulkner's novels dealing with race and slavery return again and again to the concerns and dispossession of white male characters.
    • There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords.
    • Seven of his relatives were threatened with or suffered dispossession, and he organized purchases for some of the latter.
    • So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people.
    • The approach to colonization varied significantly from one region to the next, some areas experiencing a harsher kind of dispossession than others.

Definition of dispossession in US English:

dispossession

nounˌdispəˈzeSHənˌdɪspəˈzɛʃən
  • The action of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions.

    the global impact of poverty and dispossession
    reparation for the victims of land dispossession
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords.
    • Faulkner's novels dealing with race and slavery return again and again to the concerns and dispossession of white male characters.
    • The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms.
    • So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people.
    • Together, they have survived displacement, prejudice, and dispossession, but at a cost to their humanity.
    • The approach to colonization varied significantly from one region to the next, some areas experiencing a harsher kind of dispossession than others.
    • The results have been traumatic: poverty, cultural dislocation, dispossession, and disease have taken a deadly toll.
    • He calls attention to the way in which racism against blacks is intertwined with economic dispossession.
    • Dispossession was further compounded by discriminatory legislation designed to control the native Catholic population.
    • Seven of his relatives were threatened with or suffered dispossession, and he organized purchases for some of the latter.
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