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English
Etymology
From expropriate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)
- The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.
- 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.
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French
Etymology
From exproprier + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.spʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/
Noun
expropriation f (plural expropriations)
- expropriation, confiscation, seizure
- (law) eminent domain, compulsory purchase
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