dispossession
/ˌdɪspəˈzeʃn/ (bre, ipa) · /ˌdɪspəˈzeʃn/ (ame, ipa) · /¦dis+/ (ame, mw)
dispossession — noun
1. a situation where someone loses their land, home, or belongings because another
a situation where someone loses their land, home, or belongings because another person, company, or government forces them to give these up.
The new mining law led to the dispossession of many farming villages along the river.
dispossession of + group affected
Adaeze wrote a book about the dispossession suffered by her grandparents during the war.
dispossession suffered by + named subject
Protesters gathered outside the courthouse to oppose the dispossession of small business owners.
Years of dispossession had left Hamza's family with no land and no documents to prove ownership.
The committee studied the legal dispossession of indigenous communities across three centuries.
- eviction
narrower — removing tenants from a rented property, often by court order
- expropriation
formal/legal — the state takes private property, often with some payment
- deprivation
broader — being denied something needed, not only property
- displacement
focuses on people being forced to leave a place, not on who takes the property
- possession
the state of owning or holding property
- restitution
returning property to its rightful owner after it was taken
文法句型
dispossession of [noun]
dispossession of [person]
用法筆記
Subject of the action (the dispossessor) is usually a state, company, or legal process; the object (the dispossessed) is usually a person, family, or community. Often appears in legal, historical, or political writing rather than daily conversation.