OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14278

expropriation

/ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
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expropiación
The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself 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…
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