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land-grabbernoun historicalA person who took the land of an evicted Irish tenant.The so-called ‘land-grabber’ was not just despised; he was also the object of boycotting, cattle-maiming, arson, nocturnal gunfire, or worse. Derivativesland-grab noun ...- 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!
- The plan by city councillors to redraw borough boundaries to incorporate parts of north Dublin within their bailiwick is an old-fashioned land-grab.
- 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.
land-grabbing noun ...- 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.
- The catalogue of documented reports includes rape, plundering, land-grabbing, arson of Hindu temples, bomb attacks and personal injury.
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