landgrabber

English

Etymology

From land +‎ grabber.

Noun

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 […]