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n. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.

n. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.

n. The act of expropriating, or discarding appropriation or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property.

n. The act of taking for public use upon providing compensation; condemnation by right of eminent domain.

n. The act of dispossessing an owner, either wholly or to a limited extent, of his property or proprietary rights.

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

"For what amounts to expropriation from the unwilling taxpayer, the text of the report is not much better, stating as it does that the EU parliament has "squeezed" an additional €2bn out of member states."

confiscation    arrogation   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   

expatriation    dispossession    ejectment    spoliation    confiscation