expropriation

English

Etymology

expropriate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Translations

act of expropriating

• Armenian: ունեզրկում (hy) (unezrkum), բռնագրավում (hy) (bṙnagravum), սեփականազրկում (hy) (sepʻakanazrkum)
• Belarusian: экспрапрыяцыя f (eksprapryjacyja)
• Bulgarian: отчуждаване (bg) n (otčuždavane)
• Czech: vyvlastnění n, zabavení n, konfiskace f
• Dutch: onteigening (nl) f
• Esperanto: eksproprietigo
• Faroese: ognartøka f
• Finnish: pakkoluovutus (surrender), pakko-otto (act of depriving)
• French: expropriation (fr) f
• Galician: expropiación (gl) f
• German: Enteignung (de) f, Expropriation (de) f
• Greek: απαλλοτρίωση (el) (apallotríosi)
• Hungarian: kisajátítás (hu), elbirtoklás (hu)
• Polish: wywłaszczenie (pl) n
• Romanian: expropriere (ro) f
• Russian: экспроприа́ция (ru) f (ekspropriácija)
• Spanish: expropiación f
• Swedish: expropriering (sv) c
• Turkish: zor alım, müsadere (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• eminent domain

French

Etymology

From exproprier +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

expropriation f (plural expropriations)

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

See also

• exhérédation

Further reading

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