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land-grabbing
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the activity of a land-grabber.
Quotations
1909
Although there were thus more than six hundred location tickets granted within the first year after the survey of those townships, there were not one-tenth that number of actual settlers in the county, land-grabbing having been a common practice then as later.
1952
That section of the country was the scene of land grabbing, not by the settlers who were not granted more than 1,200 acres each, much less in most cases, but by speculators, who were often government officials.