expropriation
/ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.64 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "c. 1648, Walter Montagu, 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."
- "In later years he came to regard this prospect as highly probable; he did not deduce that there was no hope for socialism, but he inclined to the view that socialism, by means of peaceful expropriation, could take over the machinery of capitalist planning almost ready-made."
Etymology
Etymology tree English expropriate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English expropriation From expropriate + -ion.