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