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expropriations

expropriations is the plural of expropriation.

Meaning of expropriation

Noun

expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)

  1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.
    • 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.c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.

Questions about expropriations

What is expropriations the plural of?
Expropriations is the plural of expropriation.

Words near expropriations in the dictionary

  1. expropriate
  2. expropriated
  3. expropriates
  4. expropriating
  5. expropriation
  6. expropriations
  7. expropriative
  8. expropriator
  9. expropriators
  10. expropriatory
  11. exproprioception

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