land grab
or land-grab
noun
the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
OTHER WORDS FROM land grab
land-grab·ber, nounWords nearby land grab
Example sentences from the Web for land grab
It was not a land-grab that was plotted in Independence Hall in 1776, but a pattern of human freedom.
They Who Knock at Our Gates |Mary AntinThe House did itself credit by refusing one land-grab, out of a thousand or so submitted.