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confiscation

/verb kon-fuh-skeyt; adjective kuhn-fis-kit/US // verb ˈkɒn fəˌskeɪt; adjective kənˈfɪs kɪt //UK // (ˈkɒnfɪˌskeɪt) //

没收,充公,罚金,流通

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing.

    • : to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use.
    • : to seize by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily: The border guards confiscated our movie cameras.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : seized or appropriated, as for public use.

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Examples

  • Anti-state charges remain common across the globeKurdish journalist Dindar Karataş was detained and his equipment confiscated in November in the eastern city of Van.

  • The Baltimore law firm went to court to challenge the search, saying thousands of electronic files unrelated to the investigation were confiscated.

  • One FDA study found that 85 percent of confiscated drugs that were supposedly imported from Canada were actually manufactured in 27 other countries.

  • Methamphetamine seizures rose 41 percent, heroin was up 181 percent and CBP confiscated 300 percent more fentanyl than in October 2019, he said.