landgrab

1. (transitive) To acquire land that one does not have a right to possess.Examples: "American, Japanese and European multinational corporations continue to landgrab tens of thousands of hectares of land for their agribusiness and plunder Mindanao's natural resources."; "I am sure this man is not out here to landgrab, but—and one's judgment is suspended—why find him on the plains near Glorieta, with no money and with an inflamed arm caused by two missing fingers on the left hand?"; "Bevcic had landgrabbed territory from the other existing gangs, coming from seemingly nowhere, and had soon been the dominant player in the East Portland area."transitive