expropriation

expropriate +‎ -ion

• IPA^(key): /ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)

1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
   • Montagu, Walter, Devout Essaies.

     The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our

     reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity.

• eminent domain

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expropriation f (plural expropriations)

1. expropriation, confiscation, seizure
2. (law) eminent domain, compulsory purchase

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