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landgrab

landgrab noun: a landrush.

Noun

landgrab (plural landgrabs)

  1. A landrush.
    • Of course, every big media company is buying digital properties —— in a landgrab either for audience or bragging rights.2008 May 19, David Carr, “Geeks Crash a House of Fashion”, in New York Times
    • One politician present called the US land grab “inevitable”, adding: “AI is the next big thing, and no one is going to roll over and play dead and say, ‘You take over.’ China's not going to let that happen and certainly the US won't”.2023 November 4, Madhumita Murgia, Anna Gross, Cristina Criddle, “Summit exposes tensions over AI development despite emollient Chinese tone”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN...

Verb

landgrab (third-person singular simple present landgrabs, present participle landgrabbing, simple past and past participle landgrabbed)

  1. (transitive) To acquire land that one does not have a right to possess.
    • American, Japanese and European multinational corporations continue to landgrab tens of thousands of hectares of land for their agribusiness and plunder Mindanao's natural resources.1986, IDOC Internazionale - Volume 17, page 27
    • I am sure this man is not out here to landgrab, but—and one's judgment is suspended—why find him on the plains near Glorieta, with no money and with an inflamed arm caused by two missing fingers on the left hand?2015, Sister Blandina Segale, At the End of the Santa Fe Trail

Forms of landgrab

Noun
plurallandgrabs
alternative formland grab
Verb
third-person singular presentlandgrabs
present participlelandgrabbing
past participlelandgrabbed
pastlandgrabbed

Origin of landgrab

From land + grab. Compare Old Norse landnám (“the taking of land”).

Questions about landgrab

What does landgrab mean?
Landgrab means a landrush.
What part of speech is landgrab?
Landgrab can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of landgrab?
The plural of landgrab is landgrabs.

Words near landgrab in the dictionary

  1. landgables
  2. landgafol
  3. landgirl
  4. landgirls
  5. Landgraaf
  6. landgrab
  7. landgrabbed
  8. landgrabber
  9. landgrabbers
  10. landgrabbing
  11. landgrabs

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