expropriate

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
expropriate /ɪksˈprəʊprɪeɪt, ɛks-/

▶verb (of the state) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit.

– derivatives
expropriation noun,
expropriator noun.

– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as expropriation): from med. L. expropriat-, expropriare ‘take from the owner’, from ex- ‘out, from’ + proprium ‘property’.

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