expropriation as a noun: - 1
expropriation
noun
1 expropriation
Taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority).
Roget 789:
taking
etc.
v.;
reception
etc.
(taking in)
296;
deglutition
etc.
(taking food)
298;
appropriation,
prehension,
prensation†;
capture,
caption;
apprehension,
deprehension†;
abreption†,
seizure,
expropriation,
abduction,
ablation;
subtraction,
withdrawal
etc.
38;
abstraction,
ademption†;
adrolepsy†.
dispossession;
deprivation,
deprivement†;
bereavement;
divestment;
disherison†;
distraint,
distress;
sequestration,
confiscation;
eviction
etc.
297.
rapacity,
rapaciousness,
extortion,
vampirism;
theft
etc.
791.
resumption;
reprise,
reprisal;
recovery
etc.
775.
clutch,
swoop,
wrench;
grip
etc.
(retention)
781;
haul,
take,
catch;
scramble.
taker,
captor.
[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate]
subduction [Geol.].
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Roget 782:
relinquishment,
abandonment
etc.
(of a course)
624;
renunciation,
expropriation†,
dereliction;
cession,
surrender,
dispensation;
quitclaim deed;
resignation
etc.
757;
riddance.
derelict
etc.
adj.;
foundling;
jetsam,
waif.
discards,
culls,
rejects;
garbage,
refuse,
rubbish.
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Dutch: onteigening
Polish: wywłaszczenie, ekspropriacja
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