compulsory purchase

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noun

purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell

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How to use compulsory purchase in a sentence

I now refer to an instance, also within my knowledge, of what compulsory purchase would do in the case of an Irish landlord.
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These considerations, however, by no means exhaust the case against the compulsory purchase of the rented land of Ireland.
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Let us first see how compulsory purchase would affect the financial position of the Three Kingdoms.
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The most conclusive argument against compulsory purchase has, nevertheless, to be yet put forward.
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But what does the compulsory purchase of the Irish land involve, and what, confessedly, are its essential conditions?
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