landgrabber

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English

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Etymology

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From land +‎ grabber.

Noun

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landgrabber (plural landgrabbers)

  1. (especially Ireland) One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted; one who engages in a landgrab.
    • 1886, Consul Willshire Butterfield, The University of Michigan, page 213:
      To destroy the power of the landlord you must refuse to help him in his cruel work of eviction [] Don't buy anything from a landgrabber. [However,] If the landgrabber sends his children to school, don't drive them away.
    • 1890, Great Britain. Special Commission to Inquire into Charges and Allegations Against Certain Members of Parliament and Others, Report of the Proceedings Before the Commissioners Appointed by the Act, page 100:
      They were not called upon either morally or legally to hold social intercourse with a notorious liar; and the sins of theft and falsehood were venial sins compared with the sin of the landgrabber, who, in coveting his neighbour's []
    • 1986, The Jerusalem Quarterly:
      Israel gained the reputation of being an intransigent, a landgrabber, whose final goal is to incorporate all or a great portion of the []