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Expropriation

//ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights. countable, uncountable

    "c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies. The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity."

  2. 2
    taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority) wordnet

Etymology

From expropriate + -ion.

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