0 past simple and past participle of expropriate
1 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.
As a matter of fairness, property-owners who are expropriated ought to, and indeed do, receive compensation from the community.
The agrarian reform law was a major political act that successfully broke up large landholdings and distributed some of the expropriated lands to designated beneficiaries.
A limited number of the landless indigenous people were allotted 25 cents to one acre of land from the surplus lands expropriated.
Almost unavoidably, such a program will leave a property owner with less power than before, even if it compensates her for expropriated property.
The number of small landowners who were expropriated was far greater than had been realized.
In short, under the three phases of land distribution, some 1.3 million small landowners were expropriated, and their ownership was distributed to 1.6 million tenants.
But the dialogue eventually expropriated the center of tragedy.
One matter that has received practically no consideration in the literature is the compensation to the expropriated landowners.
