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expropriate

/eks-proh-pree-eyt/US // ɛksˈproʊ priˌeɪt //UK // (ɛksˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt) //

征用,征收,窃取,剥夺

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·pro·pri·at·ed, ex·pro·pri·at·ing.

    • : to take possession of, especially for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner: The government expropriated the land for a recreation area.
    • : to dispossess of ownership: The revolutionary government expropriated the landowners from their estates.
    • : to take from another's possession for one's own use: He expropriated my ideas for his own article.

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Examples

  • Perhaps most controversially, HKND is authorized to expropriate land wherever it wants.

  • That way, if Maduro o un revergo de esos comes to expropriate me, they can take the farm.

  • Iraq is now a sovereign state and its power to expropriate Camp Ashraf, after paying appropriate compensation, cannot be doubted.

  • Barrs would not come to expropriate his cauliflowers and early potatoes.

  • The old theory was that the state would expropriate this industry and become the employer of all engaged in it.

  • In taking over the waterways the Realm acquires the right to expropriate, to fix rates, and to administer the river police system.

  • Our watchword must be: to arm the proletariat so that it may defeat, expropriate, and disarm the bourgeoisie.

  • The State makes him pay taxes; it ventures to expropriate him for the public good.