expropriate
征用,征收,窃取,剥夺
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ex·pro·pri·at·ed, ex·pro·pri·at·ing.
- : to take possession of, especially for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner: The government expropriated the land for a recreation area.
- : to dispossess of ownership: The revolutionary government expropriated the landowners from their estates.
- : to take from another's possession for one's own use: He expropriated my ideas for his own article.
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Perhaps most controversially, HKND is authorized to expropriate land wherever it wants.
That way, if Maduro o un revergo de esos comes to expropriate me, they can take the farm.
Iraq is now a sovereign state and its power to expropriate Camp Ashraf, after paying appropriate compensation, cannot be doubted.
Barrs would not come to expropriate his cauliflowers and early potatoes.
The old theory was that the state would expropriate this industry and become the employer of all engaged in it.
In taking over the waterways the Realm acquires the right to expropriate, to fix rates, and to administer the river police system.
Our watchword must be: to arm the proletariat so that it may defeat, expropriate, and disarm the bourgeoisie.
The State makes him pay taxes; it ventures to expropriate him for the public good.