dispossession
noun[U]
uk/ˌdɪs.pəˈzeʃ.ən/us/ˌdɪs.pəˈzeʃ.ən/thefactof havingproperty,especiallybuildingsorland, taken away from you, or theactof takingpropertyaway from apersonorgroup:
剥夺，夺去（财产，尤指房屋或土地）He said that thecountrywasfoundedon the dispossession andslaughterof the land'sindigenousinhabitants.他说，这个国家是在抢夺和屠杀原住民的基础上建立起来的。
Hermainthemeis the dispossessionofancientAboriginallandsbywhitesettlers.她探讨的主要主题是白人移民对古代原住民土地的剥夺。
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dispossess
- Theexpansionofminingledto the dispossession,economicmarginalization, andattemptedassimilationofindigenouspeoples.
- Steinbeck'schronicleof the Joad family's dispossessiontoreat the nation'sheartstrings.
- Theinvasionof thiscountryand theresultingdispossession of theoriginalinhabitantshascausedrealhurtandpain.
- Thetribehas aprofoundsenseof dispossession.
Taking things away from someone or somewhere
- appropriate
- bear away
- confiscate
- confiscation
- creamsomething/someoneoff
- debug
- drain
- expropriation
- extractive
- get off
- impound
- infringe on/uponsomething
- relieve
- rootsomething/someoneout
- routsomeoneout
- seize
- shelf
- stripping
- suck
- sweep