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Expropriation   /ˌɛksprˌoʊpriˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Expropriation

noun
1.
Taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority).





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"Expropriation" Quotes from Famous Books



... remitted in these troubled times by the native merchant-guilds from every part of China to the vast emporium of Shanghai for safe custody, where a sum not far short of a hundred million ounces now choked the vaults of the foreign banks,—being safe from governmental expropriation. The collection of provincial revenues having been long disorganized, Yuan Shih-kai, in spite of his military dictatorship, found it impossible to secure the proper resumption of the provincial remittances. Fresh loans became more and more ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale


Words linked to "Expropriation" :   expropriate, arrogation, confiscation


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