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单词 landgrab
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landgrab in British English

(ˈlændˌɡræb)
noun
informal
a sudden attempt to establish ownership of or copyright on something in advance of competitors
Word origin
C20: from the competition to stake claims to available land in 19th-century America

Examples of 'landgrab' in a sentence
landgrab

London is prey to an obscene and unprecedented landgrab.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Pretending otherwise only heightens suspicions that he is attempting a regulatory landgrab.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It's just one example of a silent landgrab unfolding around the globe.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The quantum physicists are making a landgrab for biology.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
For him it opened up the opportunity for a landgrab of the centre ground.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It would also set off a landgrab.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The landgrab for football's untapped territories is well under way.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So, there is the aerospace equivalent of a landgrab - a race to buy up airlines and landing slots.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Her tactile sympathy, which even her growing band of allies concedes is 'a bit full-on', is a landgrab.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It's hard to justify why not, although his desire for an excessive intellectual landgrab must be curbed.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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