Definition of Expropriate

1. Verb. Deprive of possessions. "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"

Generic synonyms: Deprive, Divest, Strip
Derivative terms: Expropriation

Definition of Expropriate

1. v. t. To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.

Definition of Expropriate

1. Verb. To deprive a person of their private property for public use. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expropriate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expropriate

expressomes
expressos
expressure
expressway
expressways
exprobate
exprobated
exprobates
exprobating
exprobrate
exprobrated
exprobrates
exprobrating
exprobration
exprobrations
expropriate (current term)
expropriated
expropriates
expropriating
expropriation
expropriations
expropriator
expropriators
expugn
expugnable
expugnation
expugnations
expugned
expugner
expugners

Literary usage of Expropriate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mauritania's Campaign of Terror: State-Sponsored Repression of Black Africans by Janet Fleischman, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1994)
"15 METHODS USED TO expropriate BLACKS' LANDS Several methods were used to expropriate blacks' lands, all of which violated ..."

2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1907)
"... Banquet— Naval Affairs—The Lords "Reconstitute" the Education Bill—Rival Deputations—The Town Tenants (Ireland) Bill; Proposal to expropriate Lord ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"... and ecclesiastical divisions, to select a place for the capitel, to supervise the public and private schools, to expropriate private property for public ..."

4. A Digest of the Reported Cases Determined in the Superior Courts of Ontario by Christopher Robinson, Frank John Joseph (1884)
"374, There is a distinction between the rights conferred apon municipal corporations and railway companies respectively to expropriate property, ..."

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