expropriate

[US]/eksˈprəʊprieɪt/
[UK]/eksˈproʊprieɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

Expropriate: to confiscate (property), take possession of, or deprive of ownership.

Example Sentences

expropriate sb. from an estate

the measures expropriated the landlords.

The State expropriated his palace.

The local government expropriated all the trucks and tractors during the flood.

expropriated the property owners who lived in the path of the new highway.

This paper try to use two methods, agricultural land economical function compensate method and urban construction land criterion price avulse method, to calculate the land expropriate price.

Real-world Examples

Israel has announced plans to expropriate almost 400 hectares of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

Source: BBC Listening September 2014 Compilation

She looked in turn at the three men, temporarily expropriating them.

Source: The Night's Gentle Embrace (Part 1)

She settled financial disputes with government creditors and with Repsol, a Spanish oil firm whose Argentine assets she had expropriated in 2012.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

They have also started collecting names for a petition demanding that local authorities expropriate properties from private landlords who own more than three thousand flats.

Source: BBC Listening Compilation April 2019

Tell that to the exploited, expropriated Cretans who revolted 27 times during the four and a half centuries of Venetian rule.

Source: The Economist Culture

The Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has expropriated about 100,000 hectares of land to move forward construction of a multi-billion dollar railway project known as the Mayan Train.

Source: BBC Listening Collection August 2022

AI image and text generation is pure primitive accumulation: expropriation of labour from the many for the enrichment and advancement of a few Silicon Valley technology companies and their billionaire owners.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

Yu Jianrong, a researcher on rural China, calculated in 2010 that the government had expropriated 6.7m hectares (16.5m acres) of rural land over a 20-year period, paying farmers 2 trillion yuan ($326 billion) less than market value.

Source: The Economist - China

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