expropriate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they expropriate | |
| he / she / it expropriates | |
| past simple expropriated | |
| past participle expropriated | |
| -ing form expropriating |
- expropriate something (formal or
law 法律 (of a government or an authority 政府或权力机构 to officially take away private property from its owner for public use 征用，没收（私有财产） - expropriate something (formal)
to take somebody’s property and use it without permission 侵占（他人财产）
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin expropriat- ‘taken from the owner’, from the verb expropriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + proprium ‘property’, neuter singular of proprius ‘own’.