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ˈland-ˌgrabber
One who grabs or seizes upon land (landed property or territory), esp. in an unfair or underhand manner; spec. in reference to Irish agrarian agitation, a man who takes a farm from which a tenant has been evicted.
1872Goldw. Smith in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 254 The great Elizabethan mansions..are the graceful monuments of the Tudor land-grabbers. 1880Times 24 Nov. 6/1 The holding had been taken by a land-grabber. 1883Nonconf. & Indep. 28 Dec. 1176/2 Filibustering operations of ‘land-grabbers’ in New Guinea.
So ˈland-ˌgrabbing vbl. n., the action or practice of a land-grabber; ˈland-ˌgrabbing ppl. a.
1880Daily Tel. 27 Oct., To protest against land grabbing. 1884M. Hickson Ireland in 17th C. I. Introd. 6 That selfish, land grabbing spirit. 1887Spectator 3 Sept. 1169 ‘Land-grabbing’ as it is called,—i.e., the taking of land from which another has been evicted. |