landgrab

British  

/ ˈlændˌɡræb /

noun

1. informal a sudden attempt to establish ownership of or copyright on something in advance of competitors

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Etymology

Origin of landgrab

C20: from the competition to stake claims to available land in 19th-century America

Example Sentences

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

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

Strelkov, a former intelligence officer, played a key role in Russia's 2014 landgrab of Crimea.

From BBC

His brief military foray into Georgia in 2008, his landgrab in Ukraine in 2014, his intervention in Syria in 2015 — none were comparable in their size or audacity.

From Salon

The machines’ encroachment was slow at first, but this year it turned into a landgrab.

From Science Magazine