confiscation

English

Etymology

From Middle French confiscation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

confiscation ‎(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)
• Bulgarian: конфиска́ция (bg) f ‎(konfiskácija)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: konfiskace f
• Esperanto: konfisko
• Finnish: takavarikko (fi)
• French: confiscation (fr) f

• German: Konfiszierung f, Konfiskation (de) f
• Greek: κατάσχεση (el) f ‎(katáschesi)
• Italian: confisca (it) f
• Japanese: 没収 ‎(ぼっしゅう, bosshū)
• Polish: konfiskata 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 c

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French

Noun

confiscation f ‎(plural confiscations)

1. confiscation

External links

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