Expropriation
/ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
"Expropriation" in a Sentence (4 examples)
There were protests against the expropriation.
Inflation inflicts a creeping expropriation upon savers.
Sometimes only expropriation can prevent a social tragedy.
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.