Expropriation Definition

expropriations
noun
Of government: the action of forcibly divesting another of a property interest, as by eminent domain.
Webster's New World Law

The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.

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expropriation
Plural:
expropriations

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Expropriation Sentence Examples

  • This class, who desired to own their own land, were believed to have been won over and pacified by the expropriation of the owners of the large estates.

  • The address in reply to the speech from the throne, voted after a debate in which abstract theories had triumphed over common sense, demanded universal suffrage, the establishment of pure parliamentary government, the abolition of capital punishment, the expropriation of the landlords, a political amnesty, and the suppression of the Imperial Council.

  • Never before did any real revolutionist interpret social expropriation as the transfer of wealth from one set of individuals to another.

  • Expropriation often is accompanied by infringements of the third ingredient, individual liberty, as well.

  • Long term, this hurts nations more than expropriation has helped them.

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