confiscator

It seems that daily our government takes on an ever greater role as confiscator of property in the form of taxation to redistribute to its many programs, and we all become more dependent.

Legal Plunder: Taxes, Foreclosure Rescue and Obama 2008

A short time before, a chemist from Cork, who had been appointed sub-confiscator, and desired to secure his own position, had heavily cut down the Fitzgerald rents.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

A short time before, a chemist from Cork, who had been appointed sub-confiscator, and desired to secure his own position, had heavily cut down the Fitzgerald rents.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904

Our fears must have been prophetic, for on that same evening the wildwood discharged upon us Milly's preordained confiscator -- our fee to adjustment and order.

The Four Million O. Henry 1886

Se-ques-tra-tor, one who deprives a man of property, a confiscator

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The corn-chip confiscator was created by the great animator Tex Avery, and voiced by Warner Bros 'ubiquitous Mel Blanc, and Frito-Lay was initially taken aback by the protests that mounted in the 1970s.

Slashfood Sean Elder 2010