dispossession

dispossess | American Dictionary

dispossess
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·pəˈzes/
to force someone to give up the possession of a house, land, or other property:
Many people were dispossessed of their homes during the war.

Examples of dispossess

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It is the latter which enables him to 'dispossess' foragers.
The maintenance of such concepts in everyday practice and experience of space was less important than for the smaller tenantry and the dispossessed.
The hedge did not dispossess on its own.
Who among us is not weighed upon by such factors - that is, who among us, excluding the dispossessed, poor, or homeless?
The hard core resulted from the neglect of frail, isolated, sick and dispossessed elderly people.
This, if actually implemented, is likely to dispossess women of their existing rights in matrilineal-matrilocal areas, like those described in this paper.
Men often tried to use such juridical arguments to dispossess their female relatives.
In them we see much more than an interaction between rich and poor, possessors and the dispossessed.
One can almost be absurd and ask how one can be dispossessed of land that one does not really 'own'.
The removal of ownership from a given notion also dispossessed agency, leaving the direction to be determined by the establishers and definers of said notion.
Scholars once believed that privatization had dispossessed the peasantry on a massive scale (' pauperization '), but this view is no longer widely accepted.
This undermines confidence in the pauperization hypothesis, the view that privatization necessarily dispossessed the indigenous peasantry.
The hedge, used as an instrument of dispossession, now becomes a vital resource for many of the dispossessed.
Women are therefore disproportionately dispossessed by oil exploitation.
These include the intelligentsia, the traditional and modern middle classes, the bazaaris, and the dispossessed.
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