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