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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin expropriatus.[1]
Verb
expropriate (third-person singular simple present expropriates, present participle expropriating, simple past and past participle expropriated)
- (transitive) To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.
- Coordinate term: nationalize
2014, Guiguo Wang, International Investment Law: A Chinese Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 440:States have the right to nationalize or expropriate the assets of a transnational corporation operating in their territory. Investments of foreign investors shall not be nationalized or expropriated except for a purpose in the public interest; […]
- (transitive) To surrender a claim to private property without material compensation; to deprive oneself of private propriety rights.
- Coordinate term: submit
1818, Rev. H.J. Todd quoting Boyle, A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words, volume 2, page 444:"When you have resigned, or rather consigned, your expropriated will to God, and thereby entrusted him to will for you, all his dispensations towards you are, in effect, the acts of your own will."
Translations
to deprive a person of their property
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