expropriation
noun
- seizure of private property without full compensation (under government authority)
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Pronunciation: /ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English expropriate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English expropriation From expropriate + -ion.
- 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.”