Expropriation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Expropriation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Expropriation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expropriation n taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expropriation \Expro`pria"tion\, n. [Cf. F. expropriation.] The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights. --W. Montagu. The expropriation of bad landlords. --M. Arnold.