land grab

American  

Or land-grab

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• land-grabber noun

Example Sentences

What is clear is that even the fight over a performing arts institution now includes a digital land grab, and the punchline arrived before the branding rollout did.

From Salon

“Worries are certainly not limited to investment in the AI land grab but also profitability for the companies engaged in the most notable capex spend.”

From Barron's

Investors are both questioning the returns from the billions of dollars tech companies have spent to stake their claims in the new technology land grab and growing concerned over when that investment is likely to meaningfully boost profitability.

From Barron's

Four of the market’s biggest stocks will update investors with their September-quarter earnings this week, with Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com, and Google parent Alphabet likely unveiling plans to spend even more billions in an AI land grab that will ultimately cost trillions in new capital by the end of the decade.

From Barron's

It has also gone on a stealthy land grab and controls a large chunk of a region it calls the Western Haynesville.

From The Wall Street Journal