landgrab
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of landgrab
C20: from the competition to stake claims to available land in 19th-century America
Example Sentences
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But investors appeared to take the read from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s bullish forecast that companies are more focused on winning the AI landgrab than maintaining cost discipline or preserving their balance sheets.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Strelkov, a former intelligence officer, played a key role in Russia's 2014 landgrab of Crimea.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023
The machines’ encroachment was slow at first, but this year it turned into a landgrab.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2022
The French government pledged on Wednesday to make its tax regime for expatriates the most favorable in Europe in a landgrab for London banking business displaced by Britain's decision to quit the European Union.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2016
We believe in tonnage, because this is a landgrab.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2016
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