Usually means: Taking power or position unlawfully.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. usurping: Merriam-Webster
  2. usurping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. usurping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Usurping, usurping: Wordnik
  5. usurping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. usurping: Wiktionary
  7. usurping: Dictionary.com
  8. usurping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Usurping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Usurping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. usurping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. usurping: FreeDictionary.org
  13. usurping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. usurping: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. usurping: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  usurpation

Similar:
arrogate, assume, take over, usurpment, usurpership, abstraction, purloining, malappropriation, surreptition, highjacking, more...

Opposite:
relinquishing, surrendering, yielding

Types:
taking over, seizing, commandeering, usurping power, more...

Adjectives:
jove, most, such, visual, unjust, querulous

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Similar:
arrogate, assume, take over, usurpment, usurpership, abstraction, purloining, malappropriation, surreptition, highjacking, more...

Opposite:
relinquishing, surrendering, yielding

Types:
taking over, seizing, commandeering, usurping power, more...

Adjectives:
jove, most, such, visual, unjust, querulous



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