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What does expropriate mean?

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  1. To deprive a person of their private property for public use.
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If it were to expropriate their property, it would have to compensate them with scarce and precious foreign exchange.
Drug companies are sitting ducks for governments to expropriate their property.
They can expropriate property through taxes or the right of immanent domain.
But the leaders will not expropriate anyone or close any of the mass media.
The letters mark the first time since land reforms began in 1996 that the government has taken steps to expropriate farmers.
As a result, the government took away two of his power companies and a bank, and threatened to expropriate his family.

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