[
UK
/dˌɪspəzˈɛʃən/
]
NOUN
- freeing from evil spirits
- the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
How To Use dispossession In A Sentence
- Seven of his relatives were threatened with or suffered dispossession, and he organized purchases for some of the latter.
- The results have been traumatic: poverty, cultural dislocation, dispossession, and disease have taken a deadly toll.
- He calls attention to the way in which racism against blacks is intertwined with economic dispossession.
- 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
- This arose from government policy position that betterment dispossession did not fulfil the criteria of the Restitution of Land rights Act.
- 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
- The background to this whole debate is the history of colonial and apartheid era land dispossession.
- Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
- For most of them the railway symbolized dispossession and in some cases the collapse of their traditional economies.
- Briefly, dispossession affected only pastoralists that practiced transhumance.