dispossession
pronunciation
How to pronounce dispossession in British English:
UK [ˌdɪspə'zeʃn]
How to pronounce dispossession in American English:
US [ˌdɪspə'zeʃn]
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- Noun:
- the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
- freeing from evil spirits
Word Origin
- dispossession (n.)
- 1570s, noun of action from dispossess.
Example
- 1. Thus the dispossession and internal exiles have been invented .
- 2. The bengali-speakers are settled farmers , anxious to establish private-property rights as protection against dispossession .
- 3. Dispossession and displacement to protect nature : traditional and indigenous nomadic peoples in the 21st century .
- 4. Others put it down to a burning resentment at that dispossession , and a void filled mainly by booze and drugs .