Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of putting out of possession, or the state of being dispossessed.
  • noun The act of relieving or freeing from demoniac possession, or the like.
  • noun In law, same as ouster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
  • noun (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of dispossessing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
  • noun freeing from evil spirits

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Examples

  • What can be said is we often neglect to recall the dispossession of the natives in Iowa and further east, which amid today's flag waving today is equally important.

    Blog for Iowa 2010

  • The point that the video makes -- and which is made in much more depth in the excellent new report "Carbon Trading - how it works and why it fails" -- is not only that it doesn't actually deliver emissions reductions but it also comes at great costs - such as dispossession of indigenous peoples - whilst rewarding the main polluters.

    Steve Kirsch: New Poll Shows Americans Prefer Fee-and-Dividend 2009

  • Yet during the period of my research women in Facazisse were indeed suffering from a kind of dispossession that can be explained in the context of global forces of capitalism impinging on a traditional land-based social system.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • He pointed to the reality that the people of Palestine have been, and continue to be, subjected to a sustained policy of "dispossession" by the Israelis.

    But Why Are You Lebanese So Angry? 2006

  • Meanwhile, a Globe and Mail reporter made up details about a meeting between Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, in order to make a dubious point about Palestinian "dispossession".

    Daimnation!: More mainstream media fraud 2005

  • "dispossession" has sprung a movement that is still developing and has not yet reached its final form.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • "dispossession" has sprung a movement that is still developing and has not yet reached its final form.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • "dispossession" has sprung a movement that is still developing and has not yet reached its final form.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • "dispossession" has sprung a movement that is still developing and has not yet reached its final form.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • "dispossession" has sprung a movement that is still developing and has not yet reached its final form.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

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