Landgrabber

Quick meaning: Landgrabber is a noun meaning (especially Ireland) One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted; one who engages in a landgrab.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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[…]

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include land grab, land, landscraper, grubbing, grabbler, lande.

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