expropriation

expropriate +‎ -ion

• IPA^(key): /ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)

1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
   • c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.

     The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity.

• eminent domain

From exproprier +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/

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expropriation f (plural expropriations)

1. expropriation, confiscation, seizure
2. (law) eminent domain, compulsory purchase

• exhérédation

• “expropriation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.