Usually means: Illegal seizure of power, authority.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. usurpation: Merriam-Webster
  2. usurpation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. usurpation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. usurpation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. usurpation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Usurpation, usurpation: Wordnik
  7. usurpation: Wiktionary
  8. usurpation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. usurpation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. usurpation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. usurpation: Dictionary.com
  12. Usurpation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Usurpation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. usurpation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. usurpation: Rhymezone
  16. Usurpation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. usurpation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. usurpation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. usurpation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. usurpation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. usurpation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. usurpation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Usurpation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (usurpation)

noun:  The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
noun:  Trespass onto another's property without permission.
noun:  A taking or use without right.

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