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.
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.
translation
When the government takes private property for public use, like building a road or a school.; When someone takes something that belongs to another person without asking, like taking their toys or clothes.
Word Forms
3rd Present
expropriates
Past
expropriated
Perfect
expropriated
Progressive
expropriating