landgrab

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A landrush.
    — Of course, every big media company is buying digital properties —— in a landgrab either for audience or bragging rights.
动词 v.
  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.

词形变化

landgrabs plural land grab alternative landgrabs present,singular,third-person landgrabbing participle,present landgrabbed participle,past landgrabbed past land grab alternative

词源

词源 1
From land + grab. Compare Old Norse landnám (“the taking of land”).
词源 2
From land + grab. Compare Old Norse landnám (“the taking of land”).
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