expropriate

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What the government cannot expropriate or borrow will be created out of thin air by the Fed, expanding the money supply and ultimately causing price inflation.

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  1. transitive verb To deprive of possession: expropriated the property owners who lived in the path of the new highway.
  2. transitive verb To transfer (another's property) to oneself.

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  • He did nationalize industries in Cuba and expropriate properties of rich Cubans, but Castro took a Cuba which was cosmopolitan and open to all of the world and made it a prison outpost of that most brutal of imperialist power, the Soviet Union. —  American Thinker
  • Yes, in certain instances you'll be obliged to tell the IRS exactly where it is and what you're doing with it, but no government agency will have the authority to reach into your overseas pocket and freeze or expropriate (read: steal) on a whim just so Team Obama can give it away to pay for someone else's McMansion.
  • I have blogged earlier that after reviewing the agreement of several toll concessions, including Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong (LDP), Cheras Grand Saga Highway, KESAS and Butterworth Outer Ring Road (BORR), the Government is able to 'expropriate' these highways by giving between 3 to 6 months 'notice at' reasonable 'prices. —  Philosophy Politics Economics
  • What the government cannot expropriate or borrow will be created out of thin air by the Fed, expanding the money supply and ultimately causing price inflation. —  LewRockwell.com
  • Our watchword must be: to arm the proletariat so that it may defeat expropriate, and disarm the bourgeoisie. —  Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Medieval Latin expropriāre, expropriāt- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin propriāre, to appropriate (from proprius, one's own; see proper).

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  1. from Latin as if *expropriatus, past participle of *expropriare (later Italian espropriare = Spanish expropiar = Portuguese expropriar = French exproprier, later Danish expropriere = Swedish expropriera), from ex, out, + proprius, one's own; cf. appropriate, v.
 

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/ɛksˈproʊprɪeɪt/
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