| 词汇 | land-grab |
| 释义 | land grab noun[ S ] ukus ECONOMICS, POLITICS the act of taking an area of land by force, for military or economic reasons: Farmers' groups said this would amount to a land grab for the private sector and would make India vulnerable to food shortages. ECONOMICS, COMMERCE the act of taking control of part of a market very quickly or forcefully: Internet companies are rushing to enter new markets as part of a frantic land grab. Examples of land grabland grab Further, the rubber estate is an investment to help fund social work among underdeveloped communities and not a personal landgrab as opponents have claimed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is sometimes described as a landgrab company. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The "shugo" lords also participated in this wholesale landgrab by accumulating former estates under their control by enfoeffing samurai on them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Opponents denounced the ordinance as an arbitrary and unrealistic landgrab. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They characterized the proposed expansion as one colossal landgrab. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The survey also showed that the beneficiaries of the landgrab through the act cut across all party lines. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The western part was an extra-settlement road, built in 1922 beyond the western boundary of the concession (a "de facto" landgrab to extend concession authority beyond the agreed boundaries). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After the proclamation of the protectorate, there had been a wholesale landgrab, with huge areas of land bought for trivial sums and subject to overlapping claims that required adjustment. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Last time the revaluation was postponed because of a landgrab and a tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This "landgrab" measure that they are now introducing completely alters the circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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