expropriate
[verb]
Synonyms: appropriate, accroach, annex, arrogate, commandeer, confiscate, preempt, seize, sequester, take

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Related Words: dispossess, take (away)

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ex‧pro‧pri‧ate /ɪkˈsprəʊprieɪt $ -ˈsproʊ-/ verb [transitive] formal
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: past participle of expropriare, from Latin proprius 'your own']

1. if a government or someone in authority expropriates your private property, they take it away for public use

2. to take something from someone illegally in order to use it
—expropriation /ɪkˌsprəʊpriˈeɪʃən $ -ˌsproʊ-/ noun [uncountable and countable]

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