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  • noun A landrush.

Etymologies

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land +‎ grab

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Examples

  • The present smartphone market is also described as a landgrab, in which Apple cannot afford to stop growing, or let Verizon keep funding rival platforms like Android or BlackBerry.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • The present smartphone market is also described as a landgrab, in which Apple cannot afford to stop growing, or let Verizon keep funding rival platforms like Android or BlackBerry.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • The present smartphone market is also described as a landgrab, in which Apple cannot afford to stop growing, or let Verizon keep funding rival platforms like Android or BlackBerry.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • The present smartphone market is also described as a landgrab, in which Apple cannot afford to stop growing, or let Verizon keep funding rival platforms like Android or BlackBerry.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2009

  • The present smartphone market is also described as a landgrab, in which Apple cannot afford to stop growing, or let Verizon keep funding rival platforms like Android or BlackBerry.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2009

  • The present smartphone market is also described as a landgrab, in which Apple cannot afford to stop growing, or let Verizon keep funding rival platforms like Android or BlackBerry.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2009

  • Harry "landgrab" Reid doesnt possess an ounce of leadership.

    Southern Maryland Community Forums SamSpade 2009

  • He said that "you don't have to be a wide-eyed Euro-sceptic" to recognise the directive as a "landgrab" for London's advantage as a financial centre.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • It seems like Amazon is continuing a massive digital "landgrab" ... with the acquisitions of IMDb and Withoutabox (along with Uncut, Kindle, "cloud computing") ... and with Y! and AOL falling …

    indieWIRE News 2009

  • The story of the Earldom is not just a landgrab by adventurers (of the kind the Normans and their kin were engaged in from Newfoundland to Palestine) then eroded by the natives coming back.

    September Books 1) Anglo-Norman Ulster, by T.E. McNeill nwhyte 2009

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