dispossession
3
8.2
- noun
- /ˌdɪspəˈzɛʃən/
- Specialized
:
desposesión
- The dispossession of indigenous people from their ancestral lands often leads to conflict and suffering.
- land dispossession
- dispossession of property
- complete dispossession
My people have kept their texts, language, religion and identity despite centuries of dispossession.
- My people have kept their texts, language, religion and identity despite centuries of dispossession.
- You know, English is in many ways a language of my own, you know, kind of dispossession and and exile.
Examples
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Nevertheless, the Supreme Court's rulings clearly aided in the dispossession of the Choctaw and Chickasaw.
Academic text (2004) -
His effort to escape these limits will bring him close to complete dispossession.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, the federal court system potentially joined the dispossession process.
Academic text (2004) -
The United States accomplished this dispossession most directly through formal treaties.
Academic text (2004) -
For Unamuno, this dispossession is highly disturbing because he sees it in entirely personal terms.
Academic text (1990) -
Territorial displacement and dispossession were the chief motor of Arab resistance to Zionism.
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But the 1948 war did not spare any Palestinian the agony of dispossession, exile, and family dismemberment.
Academic text (2004) -
Others argued that the Zionists had not acknowledged the intentional Zionist dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Academic text (2004) -
The court ordered the dispossession of the tenants after they failed to pay their rent for several months.
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Many families were affected by the dispossession of their homes due to the new construction project.
Synonyms
209
7.2
A legal way a lender takes a house when the owner stops paying the loan
45
4.9
Forcing someone to leave a home or apartment they rent
19
7.4
Removing someone from a place like a home by force or law
15
5.4
An authority takes someone's property as a punishment
10
8.0
Losing property, such as money or a house, as a penalty for doing something wrong
5
6.7
The lender takes back property such as a home or car when the borrower stops paying
3
9.1
The taking of private land by the government to use for a public project
1
9.4
Seizing and holding property until a debt is paid
The official taking of private property by the government, often in a crisis
The legal taking of someone's property to get money they owe
To take a person's property by legal order to make them pay a debt
The illegal taking of someone's land or property
Taking something away from the person who owns or uses it
The removal of a person from property by a court order
A landlord physically removes a tenant, who then stops paying rent
Antonyms
How Complete
- Formal
3
9.1
- Specialized
3
8.2
- Formal
71
6.1
106
2.0
67
1.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
dispossession = dispossess (semi-transparent) = dis + possess + ion
The noun is a regular and fully predictable nominalization of the verb 'dispossess'.
Etymology
Dispossession is made of dis- 'away' and possession 'having or owning something', the same root as possess. So dispossession means taking land or property 'away' from someone, often by law.