Meanings
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verb
deprive of possessions
The Communist government expropriated the landowners.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
expropriatedexpropriatesexpropriatingexpropriationexpropriators
Derived forms
unexpropriated
Related forms
expropriableexpropriationexpropriativeexpropriatorexpropriatory
Etymology
From Medieval Latin expropriātus.
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