expropriates
- present tense form of expropriate (3rd person singular).
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
The one piece of legislation that carries his name� the Hickenlooper Amendment to the 1962 foreign aid bill�cuts off aid to any country that expropriates U.S. property.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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 Deville, Gabriel
