usurpare
v.
usurp, encroach
usurpar
v.
usurp; assume; encroach, infringe on
usurpar
v.
impinge, encroach; infringe, invade; usurp
usurpo
V
seize upon| usurp; use
usurpar
= usurp, hijack, take over, rip off.
Ex: Peter Jackaman fears 'that public libraries have failed to grasp the opportunity which this development offered, and as result their potential role has, in many cases, been usurped by other agencies'.
Ex: Information may have been hijacked as the province of computer operators rather than librarians.
Ex: We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.
Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.