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dispossession::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | exorcism |
| Type of | supernaturalism |
dispossession::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | eviction, legal ouster |
| Type of | due process of law, due process |
| Has types | actual eviction, ouster, retaliatory eviction |
| Derivation | dispossess |
Examples of dispossession
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Land grabs here for the oil rush often involve dispossession of peasant farmers.
From the guardian.co.uk
Too slow for the wing, too small for central midfield, too prone to dispossession.
From the guardian.co.uk
The GOSL must also compensate the owners for the past dispossession of their land.
From the en.wikipedia.org
That cash flow likely encouraged more dispossession, which is a sad thought.
From the economist.com
Nowadays there is a ready audience for maudlin narratives of dispossession and exile.
From the guardian.co.uk
He sees a further process of dispossession, virtual and subtle, under way.
From the theaustralian.com.au
Indigenous people under the nation-state have experienced exclusion and dispossession.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The plight and dispossession of Palestinian refugees weighed heavily on Professor Said.
From the time.com
Nevertheless, the dispossession of the Palestinian people was an outrage.
From the economist.com
- Eviction: the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
- Exorcism: freeing from evil spirits
- (dispossess) deprive of the possession of real estate
- (dispossessed) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
- (Dispossess) Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. ...
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). ...
- The act of dispossessing
- (dispossessed) homeless; impoverished
- (dispossess) To oust from land by legal process.
