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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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Private ownership based on one's own labour must of necessity develop into the expropriation of the workers.
There was no question of a massive expropriation of noble estates, even with compensation.
This occurred in the context of reforms, including land redistribution, expanded rural education, and the expropriation of the oil industry.
The party supported reform, in spite of the expropriation of some US investors.
The expropriation of the 200,000 families of the landed nobility in favor of the 25,000,000 peasant homesteads is an accomplished fact.
A more serious case of attempted expropriation of minority shareholders is hard to imagine.

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