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.
What means dispossession?
transitive verb. : to put out of possession or occupancy dispossessed the nobles of their land.
What is a dispossession in real estate?
To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property. verb. 1. 1. To evict someone from a tenancy in, or the possession of, real property.