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What does expropriate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word expropriate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To deprive a person of their private property for public use.
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They can expropriate property through taxes or the right of immanent domain.
Drug companies are sitting ducks for governments to expropriate their property.
In the fullness of time these workers would rise up and expropriate the expropriators.
He feared that homestead legislation would expropriate land he needed for his college bill.
The letters mark the first time since land reforms began in 1996 that the government has taken steps to expropriate farmers.
But the leaders will not expropriate anyone or close any of the mass media.

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