expropriate
🇺🇸
/eksˈprəʊprieɪt/
🇬🇧
/eksˈprəʊprieɪt/
verb
R
When the government takes private property for public use, like building a road or a school.
The government expropriated the land to build a new hospital.
政府は新しい病院を建設するために土地を没収しました。
R
When someone takes something that belongs to another person without asking, like taking their toys or clothes.
The bully expropriated the new toy from the little kid at school.
いじめっ子が学校で子供から新しいおもちゃを奪いました。
translation
没収, 横領
語形変化
3rd Present
expropriates
Past
expropriated
Perfect
expropriated
Progressive
expropriating