expropriation

1. The taking over of private property by a government, often without fair compensation but usually with a legal assertion that the government has a right to do so.

Example Sentences

Marx found something more in the nature of a driving force in his class hostility based on expropriation and injustice.

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They are making such inconceivable blunders as the expropriation of the Poles and the colonization scheme of Posen.

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Like Bismarck, he enforced in Poland the inexorable policy of expropriation and appropriation.

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A new system of expropriation has been adopted since 1910 by the City.

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Henceforth, the promptness of expropriation will save him from total ruin.

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Related Words

• appropriation
• confiscation