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What does expropriation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
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The expropriation of the 200,000 families of the landed nobility in favor of the 25,000,000 peasant homesteads is an accomplished fact.
Private ownership based on one's own labour must of necessity develop into the expropriation of the workers.
The expropriation occurred when the project was not yet in operation and had yet to generate revenue.
Revolution, in the sense of the expropriation of landlords and capitalists without compensation, was not the aim.
There was no question of a massive expropriation of noble estates, even with compensation.
In much of the third world, poverty can be directly linked to the expropriation of resources during colonial periods.

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