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to expropriate
01
to take possession of someone's property, typically through legal means or governmental authority
Transitive: to expropriate a property
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
expropriate
3rd person singular
expropriates
Present participle
expropriating
Past simple
expropriated
Past participle
expropriated
Examples
The government decided to expropriate the land for a public infrastructure project.
Lexical Tree
expropriation
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