expropriate

English

Verb

expropriate (third-person singular simple present expropriates, present participle expropriating, simple past and past participle expropriated)

1. To deprive a person of their private property for public use.

Related terms

• expropriable
• expropriation
• expropriative
• expropriator
• expropriatory

Translations

to deprive a person of their property

• Bulgarian: отчуждавам (bg) (otčuždavam)
• Czech: vyvlastnit
• Finnish: pakkolunastaa
• French: exproprier (fr)
• Galician: expropiar (gl)
• German: enteignen (de)

• Greek: απαλλοτριώνω (el) (apallotrióno)
• Italian: espropriare
• Luxembourgish: expropriéieren
• Polish: wywłaszczać impf, wywłaszczyć pf
• Russian: экспроприи́ровать (ru) (ekspropriírovatʹ)
• Spanish: expropiar (es)