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expropriation
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English
Etymology
From expropriate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)
- The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.
- c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.
- The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity.
- c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.
Translations
act of expropriating
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French
Etymology
From exproprier + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
expropriation f (plural expropriations)
See also
Further reading
- “expropriation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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