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0 to take away money or property especially for public use without payment to the owner, or for personal use illegally:
He was discovered to have been expropriating company funds.
1 to take and keep money or property belonging to someone else
2 if a government expropriates property, it takes it for public use, sometimes without payment to the owner:
The new regime wiped out organized crime and vice, expropriated factories and built new ones, setting the city on a new industrial course.
Political risk is the risk that an investment abroad may be expropriated by the overseas government.
The road will be built on about 400 acres, of which 56 acres were expropriated from landowners.
3 to illegally take property or money that belongs to someone else: