confiscation

English

Etymology

From Middle French confiscation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

confiscation (countable and uncountable, plural confiscations)

1. The act or process of confiscating.

Translations

the act or process of confiscating an item from public use; expropriation

• Arabic: اِسْتِيلَاء‎ m (istīlāʾ)
• Belarusian: канфіска́цыя f (kanfiskácyja)
• Bulgarian: конфиска́ция (bg) f (konfiskácija)
• Catalan: confiscació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒收 (zh), 没收 (zh) (mòshōu), 充公 (zh) (chōnggōng)

• Czech: konfiskace f
• Danish: konfiskation c, konfiskering c
• Dutch: confiscatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: konfisko
• Finnish: takavarikko (fi)
• French: confiscation (fr) f

• German: Konfiszierung f, Konfiskation (de) f
• Greek: κατάσχεση (el) f (katáschesi)
• Hungarian: elkobzás (hu)
• Italian: confisca (it) f
• Japanese: 没収 (ぼっしゅう, bosshū)
• Occitan: confiscacion f
• Polish: konfiskata (pl) f
• Portuguese: confisco (pt) m, confiscação f
• Russian: конфиска́ция (ru) f (konfiskácija), реквизи́ция (ru) f (rekvizícija)
• Spanish: confiscación (es) f, comiso (es) m, decomiso (es) m
• Swedish: konfiskering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: конфіска́ція f (konfiskácija)
• Welsh: siêd m

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French

Etymology

From Latin confiscatio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

confiscation f (plural confiscations)

1. confiscation

Related terms

• confisquer

Further reading

• “confiscation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).