expropriate

English

Etymology

Medieval Latin expropriatus

Verb

expropriate (third-person singular simple present expropriates, present participle expropriating, simple past and past participle expropriated)

1. (transitive) To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.

   Coordinate term: nationalize

   • 2014, Guiguo Wang, International Investment Law: A Chinese Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 440:

     States have the right to nationalize or expropriate the assets of a transnational corporation operating in their territory. Investments of foreign investors shall not be nationalized or expropriated except for a purpose in the public interest; […]

Related terms

• expropriable
• expropriation
• expropriative
• expropriator
• expropriatory

 

Translations

to deprive a person of their property

• Bulgarian: отчуждавам (bg) (otčuždavam)
• Czech: vyvlastnit
• Dutch: onteigenen (nl)
• Finnish: pakkolunastaa
• French: exproprier (fr)
• Galician: expropiar (gl)
• German: enteignen (de)
• Greek: απαλλοτριώνω (el) (apallotrióno)
• Hungarian: kisajátít (hu), elbirtokol (hu)
• Italian: espropriare
• Luxembourgish: expropriéieren
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekspropriere, oreigne (no)

  Nynorsk: ekspropriere, oreigne

• Polish: wywłaszczać impf, wywłaszczyć pf
• Portuguese: expropriar (pt), desapropriar (pt)
• Russian: экспроприи́ровать (ru) (ekspropriírovatʹ)
• Spanish: expropiar (es)
• Swedish: expropriera (sv)