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  • noun Ireland One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted.

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Examples

  • Those who will not pay prevent others who would; and the hated "landgrabber," denounced from altar and platform alike, is simply an honest and industrious worker, who would make his own living and the landlord's rent out of a bit of land which is lying idle and going to waste.

    About Ireland 1860

  • So why are Right opportunists allowed to have their day openly siding with the landgrabber and bureaucrat capitalist Manuel Villar?

    Jakarta IMC Newswire 2010

  • “ … then there was a financial crisis,” I said, scrabbling around for something convincing to tell him, “and I had a real problem finding the money for the bills and taxes, and then there was a chance I would lose the house to a landgrabber … ”

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • “ … then there was a financial crisis,” I said, scrabbling around for something convincing to tell him, “and I had a real problem finding the money for the bills and taxes, and then there was a chance I would lose the house to a landgrabber … ”

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • “ … then there was a financial crisis,” I said, scrabbling around for something convincing to tell him, “and I had a real problem finding the money for the bills and taxes, and then there was a chance I would lose the house to a landgrabber … ”

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Spanish nigger or a kanaka, ez called your father a pirate and landgrabber, ez much as allowed he was shot by some one or killed himself a purpose, ez said you was a heathen and a looney because you didn't go to school or church along with their trash, ez kept away from

    The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

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