DCHP-3

land shark †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who buys up large amounts of land usually intending to profit by speculation.

Quotations

1882
If the country is to be handed over to land sharks of every shade and kind, what is the use of prolonging the agony.
1935
. . . the Metis are being stirred up by the land sharks to demand their scrip, then the sharks will swallow them: what's paid for scrip will go in whisky, and they're left no better off.