expropriate
verb (used with object)
to take possession of, especially for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner.
expropriates
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present tense formof expropriate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The agency in charge of approving these pipelines—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC—is reconsidering how eminent domain, by which the government legally expropriates private property for public purposes, is used.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2018
"Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw.
From Time Magazine Archive
By thus throwing men out of work, the instrument of labor lowers wages and expropriates the laborer from his means of existence.
From Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism by Gabriel Deville
