Spoliation

//spəʊliˈeɪʃn̩//

Synonyms for "spoliation" (95 found)

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Translations

30 translations across 13 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • ограбване noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • плячкосване noun ((uncountable) government-sanctioned action or practice of plundering neutral ships at sea)

Dutch

3 entries
  • bewijsvernietiging noun ((uncountable) intentional destruction of, or tampering with, a document so as to impair its evidentiary value)
  • plundering noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • vrijbuiterij noun ((uncountable) government-sanctioned action or practice of plundering neutral ships at sea)

Finnish

4 entries
  • kanne korvausten riistosta noun ((countable) lawsuit brought or writ issued by an incumbent against another, claiming that the latter has wrongfully taken the emoluments of a benefice)
  • korvausten riisto noun ((uncountable) action of an incumbent wrongfully depriving another of the emoluments of a benefice)
  • puolueettomien alusten ryöstö noun ((uncountable) government-sanctioned action or practice of plundering neutral ships at sea)
  • ryöstö noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

French

1 entries
  • spoliation noun ((uncountable) action of destroying or ruining (cognates) — see also destruction, ruin)

German

1 entries
  • Beweisvereitelung noun ((uncountable) intentional destruction of, or tampering with, a document so as to impair its evidentiary value)

Italian

1 entries
  • spoliazione noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Latin

1 entries
  • spoliātiō noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Middle English

2 entries
  • spoliacioun noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • spoliacioun noun ((uncountable) action of an incumbent wrongfully depriving another of the emoluments of a benefice)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries
  • تاراج noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • تالان noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • صویغون noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • چاپول noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Persian

2 entries
  • تاراج noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • یغما noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • espoliação noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Romanian

2 entries
  • spoliație noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • spoliere noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Spanish

2 entries
  • despojo noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)
  • expoliación noun ((uncountable) action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; state of having property forcibly seized — see also pillage, plunder)

Sample sentences

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The weapons of the empire had been […] an unequalled genius for organization, and an uniform system of external law and order. This was generally a real boon to conquered nations, because it substituted a fixed and regular spoliation for the fortuitous and arbitrary miseries of savage warfare: […]

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How many people out of the suit, Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt, would be a very wide question. […] In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

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In Davidson v. New Orleans, above cited [96 U.S. 97 (1878)], it was said that a statute declaring in terms, without more, that the full and exclusive title to a described piece of land belonging to one person should be and is hereby vested in another person, would, if effectual, deprive the former of his property without due process of law, within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Such an enactment would not receive judicial sanction in any country having a written constitution distributing the powers of government among three coördinate departments, and committing to the judiciary, expressly or by implication, authority to enforce the provisions of such constitution. It would be treated not as an exertion of legislative power, but as a sentence—an act of spoliation.

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The ritual condemnation of foreign corporations' spoliations of the resources of developing countries and their elevation to the level of international concern have obscured the problem of spoliations by national officials of the wealth of the states of which they are temporary custodians. […] In some cases, absconding officials have left the economies of their countries ransacked and destroyed.

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