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单词 land-grabber
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Definition of land-grabber in English:

land-grabber

noun
  • 1A person who seizes and possesses land in an unfair or unlawful manner.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The so-called ‘land-grabber’ was not just despised; he was also the object of boycotting, cattle-maiming, arson, nocturnal gunfire, or worse.
    1. 1.1historical A person who took the land of an evicted Irish tenant.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The so-called ‘land-grabber’ was not just despised; he was also the object of boycotting, cattle-maiming, arson, nocturnal gunfire, or worse.

Derivatives

  • land-grab

  • nounˈlan(d) ˌɡrabˈlæn(d) ˌgræb
    • An act of seizing land in an opportunistic or unlawful manner.

      a ruthless land grab by paramilitary groups
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As if this audacious land-grab were not scandal enough, the hijacking was done in a way that makes it harder to stop spammers sending you junk e-mails from nonexistent web addresses.
      • The plan by city councillors to redraw borough boundaries to incorporate parts of north Dublin within their bailiwick is an old-fashioned land-grab.
      • Picture a frantic land-grab, as one design pioneer after another lunges out into the diminishing frontier, staking out ever-shrinking plots of graphic territory, erecting Keep Out!
  • land-grabbing

  • noun
    • It is a tale of suffering from continued land-grabbing, dispossession, disinheritance, and displacement coupled with powerlessness and the virtual absence of an organized and effective military.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The catalogue of documented reports includes rape, plundering, land-grabbing, arson of Hindu temples, bomb attacks and personal injury.
      • Staging a coup might work, but ironically in this case land-grabbing might be the way to go.
      • And yet the land-grabbing shows no signs of slowing down.
      • There are a host of other things they're doing right now, that is majorly against the poor - like land-grabbing, but they'll never be in the news.

Definition of land-grabber in US English:

land-grabber

nounˈlandˌɡrabər
  • A person who seizes and possesses land in an unfair or unlawful manner.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The so-called ‘land-grabber’ was not just despised; he was also the object of boycotting, cattle-maiming, arson, nocturnal gunfire, or worse.
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