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landgrabber

noun

Etymology

From land + grabber.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to gather, rake, grab, seize”
  2. derived from *grabōną✻ — “to gather, rake”
  3. derived from *grabbōn✻
  4. derived from gravan
  5. borrowed from grabben — “to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”
  6. borrowed from grabben
  7. suffixed as grabber — “grab + er”
  8. compounded as landgrabber — “land + grabber”

Definitions

  1. One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted

    One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted; one who engages in a landgrab.

    • 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.
    • 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[…]
    • Israel gained the reputation of being an intransigent, a landgrabber, whose final goal is to incorporate all or a great portion of the[…]

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