conquest vs scalping

conquest

noun
  • An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle. 

  • Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. 

  • That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. 

  • A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags. 

  • A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections. 

verb
  • To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor. 

scalping

noun
  • The action by which someone is scalped. 

  • A legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread. 

  • A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up. 

How often have the words conquest and scalping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )