Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who subsists by cheating or robbing sailors on shore; a land-pirate.
- noun A land-grabber; one who seizes upon land by force or chicanery.
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Examples
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The world will always have more imitators than innovators, which is a truly sad state of affairs; especially when the land-shark imitators swim in to take a fatal bite out of the innovator (ie Walmart, Microsoft, Starbucks, Hilton, insert oppressive corporate Goliath of choice here).
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But the foreign land-shark, and the corporate land-shark, dwindle into insignificance by the side of the individual land-shark.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The British land-shark, having got his hold upon the soil, possesses the place to stand for which the Greek sighed in vain, and no man will say he does not move the world; and he will continue to moveit until such time as the world shall movehim.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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We have an indigenous land-shark whose maw is so capacious that the rapacity of his appetite in no wise keeps pace with its lightning-like digestion.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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But the foreign land-shark, and the corporate land-shark, dwindle into insignificance by the side of the individual land-shark.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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We have an indigenous land-shark whose maw is so capacious that the rapacity of his appetite in no wise keeps pace with its lightning-like digestion.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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But the foreign land-shark, and the corporate land-shark, dwindle into insignificance by the side of the individual land-shark.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The British land-shark, having got his hold upon the soil, possesses the place to stand for which the Greek sighed in vain, and no man will say he does not move the world; and he will continue to moveit until such time as the world shall movehim.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The British land-shark, having got his hold upon the soil, possesses the place to stand for which the Greek sighed in vain, and no man will say he does not move the world; and he will continue to moveit until such time as the world shall movehim.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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We have an indigenous land-shark whose maw is so capacious that the rapacity of his appetite in no wise keeps pace with its lightning-like digestion.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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