land-sharking
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
present participle and gerund of land-shark
noun
The speculative purchase of large amounts of land for the sole purpose of selling it at a profit.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The main object in making Colonists pay for their land, instead of the Government giving it to them, is to prevent what is called the land-sharking system."
- "Land-sharking was not, however, limited to persons whose sole object in life was money-making, as several missionaries, Mr. Wentworth, an eminent Sydney lawyer, and the British Resident, were to be found among them."
- "In the old land-sharking days the European could not acquire land from a Native until it was shown that the Native had enough land for himself and his family; but the Government had bought the last acre, and also the interest of the children."
- "Speculation and its abuses intensified, including practices such as land-sharking, a staple of Westerns, in which unscrupulous frontier agents sold land warrants to farmers on credit, often at very high interest rates."
- "Through the Church Missionary Society in London, the Colonial Office heard of the increasing pace of Māori conversion to Christianity and justifications for missionary land purchases, including that some were on trust for Māori to protect them from European land-sharking."
- ""The landlords there" (Ireland), says Spenser, "most shamefully rack their rents;" so that our present generateion of rack-renters, land-jobbing companies, as well as land-sharking individuals, have a long prescription for their legalized system of plunder."