Usually means: Deprivation of ownership or possession.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispossession: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispossession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispossession: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dispossession: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dispossession, dispossession: Wordnik
  6. dispossession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dispossession: Wiktionary
  8. Dispossession, dispossession: Dictionary.com
  9. Dispossession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. dispossession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. dispossession: Rhymezone
  12. Dispossession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. dispossession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. dispossession: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dispossession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dispossession: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispossession: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. dispossession: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. dispossession: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispossession: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dispossession)

▸ noun:  The act of dispossessing someone of something.
▸ noun:  The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.

Similar:
eviction, legal ouster, deprivation, disseizin, disappropriation, dispossessee, disownment, displantation, direption, dislocation, more...

Opposite:
possession

Types:
eviction, eviction notice, eviction order, eviction by notice, eviction by order, more...

Phrases:
Accumulation by dispossession, more...

Adjectives:
forcible, violent, such, actual, cultural, colonial, total, complete, own, indian, economic

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Similar:
eviction, legal ouster, deprivation, disseizin, disappropriation, dispossessee, disownment, displantation, direption, dislocation, more...

Opposite:
possession

Types:
eviction, eviction notice, eviction order, eviction by notice, eviction by order, more...

Phrases:
Accumulation by dispossession, more...

Adjectives:
forcible, violent, such, actual, cultural, colonial, total, complete, own, indian, economic

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark blue,     olive, more...



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