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What does dispossess mean?

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Verb
  1. To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
  2. (sports) To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
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Workers feared, often quite correctly, that the new machines might dispossess them of their jobs.
The Government of Canada does not dispossess third parties, nor does it force them to sell their lands unwillingly.
Publicly, Bowen did not challenge the government's right to dispossess him, claiming only that it must be done in the right way.
Some say that it would be cruel to dispossess these people of the only means of making money that they have.
Lords who unjustly dispossess their vassals can expect punishment from a higher authority.
We do not accept that unfettered commercial exploitation of our genetic resources should continue to dispossess and impoverish us.

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