(~s, expropriating, ~d)
If a government or other authority ~s someone’s property, they take it away from them for public use. (LEGAL)
The Bolsheviks ~d the property of the landowners.
VERB: V n
expropriation (expropriations)
...the expropriation of property...
Ownership is not clear because of expropriations in the Nazi era.
N-VAR: oft N of n