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expropriate
(redirected from expropriator)

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ex·pro·pri·ate  (k-sprpr-t)
tr.v. ex·pro·pri·at·ed, ex·pro·pri·at·ing, ex·pro·pri·ates
1. To deprive of possession: expropriated the property owners who lived in the path of the new highway.
2. To transfer (another's property) to oneself.
[Medieval Latin exproprire, exproprit- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin proprire, to appropriate (from proprius, one's own; see proper).]
ex·propri·ation n.
ex·propri·ator n.
ex·propri·a·tory (--tôr, -tr) adj.
expropriate
Verb
[-ating, -ated] Formal (of a government or other official body) to take (money or property) away from its owners [Medieval Latin expropriare to deprive of possessions]
expropriation n
expropriator n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.expropriate - deprive of possessions; "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"
deprive, divest, strip - take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
expropriate
verb (Formal) seize, take, appropriate, confiscate, assume, take over, take away, commandeer, requisition, arrogate
Translations
expropriate [ɛksˈprəuprɪeɪt] vt → expropiar
expropriate [ɛksˈprəuprɪeɪt] vt → exproprier
expropriate [ɛksˈprəuprɪeɪt] vt → enteignen
expropriate [ɛksˈprəuprɪeɪt] vt → espropriare


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Expropriating the expropriators, for example, entails responsibility for the misery of those expropriated.
Eric Voegelin and Reinhold Niebuhr on the moral resources of democracy by Russell, Greg / Modern Age
Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounced Israel as an expropriator of Arab land and said it must surrender nearly all the occupied territory for peace with the Arabs.
A chronology of U.S.-Middle East relations. (Facts for Your Files) by Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
In the fullness of time these workers would rise up and expropriate the expropriators.
Is a cancer growing in the bowels of liberalism? (Tolerating Freedom) by Lomasky, Loren E. / Reason
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