expropriate

Definition

To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin expropriātus.

Example Sentences

• "States have the right to nationalize or expropriate the assets of a transnational corporation operating in their territory. Investments of foreign investors shall not be nationalized or expropriated except for a purpose in the public interest; […]"
• "When you have resigned, or rather consigned, your expropriated will to God, and thereby entrusted him to will for you, all his dispensations towards you are, in effect, the acts of your own will."

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