0 the fact of having property, especially buildings or land, taken away from you, or the act of taking property away from a person or group:
He said that the country was founded on the dispossession and slaughter of the land's indigenous inhabitants.
Her main theme is the dispossession of ancient Aboriginal lands by white settlers.
The expansion of mining led to the dispossession, economic marginalization, and attempted assimilation of indigenous peoples.
Steinbeck's chronicle of the Joad family's dispossession tore at the nation's heartstrings.
The invasion of this country and the resulting dispossession of the original inhabitants has caused real hurt and pain.
