landgrab noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •A landrush.Of course, every big media company is buying digital properties — in a landgrab either for audience or bragging rights. — 2008 verb1 •To acquire land that one does not have a right to possess.American, Japanese and European multinational corporations continue to landgrab tens of thousands of hectares of land for their agribusiness and plunder Mindanao's natural resources. — 1986 formslandgrabbed · landgrabbing · landgrabs