land grab

or land-grab

noun

1. the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.

Other Words From

• land-grabber noun

Example Sentences

Not as the site of a land grab, but as a destination to discover yourself.

From Outside Online

It’s almost like a new shot of a land grab, if you will, to acquire drivers, to instill goodwill with drivers, many of whom have been kind of inactive or partially active on the platform.

From Quartz

“At the moment, they want distribution, eyeballs and market share” during the “initial land grab” for potential online sports bettors, Linforth said.

From Digiday

The brazen land grab of Crimea was planned while Putin was enjoying the limelight of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

From The Daily Beast

The Sopranos happened at a time when the Internet was here, was with us, and I think it enabled a land grab to take place.

From The Daily Beast

Again, follow the footnote: It leads to the introduction to the Israeli human rights group's 2002 report Land Grab.

From The Daily Beast

The House did itself credit by refusing one land-grab, out of a thousand or so submitted.

From Project Gutenberg

It was not a land-grab that was plotted in Independence Hall in 1776, but a pattern of human freedom.

From Project Gutenberg