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expropriate
[eks-proh-pree-eyt]
verb (used with object)
to take possession of, especially for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner.
The government expropriated the land for a recreation area.
to dispossess (a person) of ownership.
The revolutionary government expropriated the landowners from their estates.
to take (something) from another's possession for one's own use.
He expropriated my ideas for his own article.
expropriate
/ ɛˈəʊɪˌɪ /
verb
to deprive (an owner) of (property), esp by taking it for public use See also eminent domain
Other 51Թ Forms
- expropriable adjective
- expropriation noun
- expropriationist adjective
- expropriator noun
- de-expropriation noun
- unexpropriable adjective
- unexpropriated adjective
- ˌDZˈپDz noun
- ˈDZ adjective
- ˈDZˌٴǰ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of expropriate1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of expropriate1
Example Sentences
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the centre of a political firestorm after he approved a law that gives the state the power to expropriate some privately owned land without compensation for owners.
The minister also rejected allegations, repeated by Trump, that government was expropriating land held by white farmers.
Those claims have grown louder in recent months, after South Africa passed a law allowing the government to expropriate rural land that was not in use.
It was at that point that Ramaphosa signed into law the controversial bill that allows South Africa's government to expropriate privately-owned land in cases when it is deemed "equitable and in the public interest".
In dozens of states, expropriated farmers march on their legislatures.
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