Meaning of expropriate In English

• 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:

  • The banker has been in jail since mid-May pending trial on charges of expropriating deposits.