Landgrab

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A landrush.

    "Of course, every big media company is buying digital properties —— in a landgrab either for audience or bragging rights."

Verb
  1. 1
    To acquire land that one does not have a right to possess. transitive

    "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."

Example

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"Of course, every big media company is buying digital properties —— in a landgrab either for audience or bragging rights."

Etymology

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

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