"landshark" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From land + shark.",
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      "form": "landsharks",
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      "glosses": [
        "A customs officer."
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          "smuggler",
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        "(obsolete, slang, derogatory, among smugglers) A customs officer."
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      "glosses": [
        "A swindler or fraudster."
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          "swindler",
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        "(obsolete, slang, derogatory) A swindler or fraudster."
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          "ref": "1880, Parliamentary Debates, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 332:",
          "text": "By the Europeans, Sir, to gratify the lust of the landsharks and land-jobbers who hungered after the lands of the Natives: it was to satisfy their greed, and not for the benefit of the Natives in any way.",
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        "A landgrabber."
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        "(derogatory) A landgrabber."
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        "A landgrabber."
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