transcription, транскрипция: [ eksproʊprieɪt ]
( expropriates, expropriating, expropriated)
If a government or other authority expropriates someone’s property, they take it away from them for public use. ( LEGAL )
The Bolsheviks expropriated the property of the landowners.
VERB : V n
• ex‧pro‧pria‧tion
(expropriations)
...the expropriation of property...
Ownership is not clear because of expropriations in the Nazi era.
N-VAR : oft N of n