| 单词 | land-sharking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-sharking ΚΠ 1839 Colonial Gaz. 28 Aug. 627/2 Land-sharking means pretending to purchase, but really obtaining somehow, land from the natives. 1840 1st Rep. N.Z. Company 31 The practice of land-sharking, or the acquisition of land from the barbarous natives by private persons, without any reserves for the use of the natives, or indeed any sort of regard for their just rights. 1855 C. W. Richmond Let. 28 Apr. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 162 Such agreements favor landsharking and tend to produce strife and contention. < as lemmas |
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