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adj. - Taken out of the possession of another and transferred to your own use often without permission.

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Usage examples (36)
  • The expropriated land was developed into a public playground
  • Verb (used with object), : The government expropriated the land for a recreation area. ,The revolutionary government expropriated the landowners from...
  • Hypermarkets his government expropriated from a French-Colombian group earlier this year, that he said were already turning a significantly higher profit.
  • While problems of fraud etc. are mentioned, nowhere does it say that in many games you would be virtually condemned to death and expropriated aka banned for this activity.
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