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Depriving an owner of property by taking it for public use
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expropriation
Word definitions for expropriation in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of expropriate; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of deprive of private propriety rights.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "renunciation of worldly goods," from Medieval Latin expropriationem (nominative expropriatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin expropriare "deprive of property," from ex- "away from" (see ex- ) + propriare "to appropriate" ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The process of expropriation "occurs when a public agency (for example, the provincial government and its agencies, regional districts, municipalities, school boards, post-secondary institutions and utilities) takes private property for a purpose deemed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expropriation \Ex*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. expropriation.] The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights. --W. Montagu. The expropriation of bad landlords. --M. Arnold. ...
Usage examples of expropriation.
At one time, in modernity, this monopoly was legitimated either as the expropriation of weapons from the violent and anarchic mob, the disordered mass of individuals who tend to slaughter one another, or as the instrument of def ense against the enemy, that is, against other peoples organized in states.
At one time, in modernity, this monopoly was legitimated either as the expropriation of weapons from the violent and anarchic mob, the disordered mass of individuals who tend to slaughter one another, or as the instrument of def ense against the enemy, that is, against other peoples organized in states.
Capitalism sets in motion a continuous cycle of private reappropriation of public goods: the expropriation of what is common.
ITT could not claim against insurance for an expropriation the company itself provoked by violating Chilean law.
Since the value of a business—its wealth—rests on its ability to make money, the acts of a government seizing a company's plant or devaluing its reputation are in the same category: both are acts of expropriation.
They had fewer expectations now than right after the synthesis, because Frog Eggs behaved like a living thing in the respect that, just as living matter utilized the energy of chemical reactions exclusively for itself, so did Frog Eggs not allow any expropriation of its nuclear energy.
And everything they say makes sense on at least one level: Fears of arbitrary government price controls, expropriation, mounting labor difficulties, and the risks of long-term investments vs.