Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing.
- transitive verb To seize by authority: synonym: appropriate.
- adjective Seized by a government; appropriated.
- adjective Having lost property through confiscation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; appropriate, by way of penalty, to public use.
- To take away from another by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily, as anything improperly held or obtained by another; seize as forfeited for any reason: as, to
confiscate a book; the police confiscated a set of gambling implements. - Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.
- Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
- transitive verb To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To use one's
authority to lay claim to and separate apossession from its holder.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- adjective surrendered as a penalty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But Jesus never told people to confiscate from the rich and give to the poor, Robin Hood style.
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But Jesus never told people to confiscate from the rich and give to the poor, Robin Hood style.
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But Jesus never told people to confiscate from the rich and give to the poor, Robin Hood style.
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I believe the unproductive have no right to confiscate from the productive.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But Jesus never told people to confiscate from the rich and give to the poor, Robin Hood style.
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But Jesus never told people to confiscate from the rich and give to the poor, Robin Hood style.
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That is why he is trying to spend every dollar he can confiscate from the American people.
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A standard that allows him to 'confiscate' privately owned land ... with everybody knowing tha the biggest landlord has always been the government .. with everybody knowing that the new landlords are his family and party members
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Ryan Denby, chief operations officer at Austin Rare Coins, Inc., says that some investors have become so afraid the federal government will "confiscate" bullion that they have been paying hundreds of dollars extra per ounce to buy gold coins instead.
The Case for Investing in Foreign Currencies, Gold Funds 2009
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The Port Authority replies the FAA has no right to "confiscate" the slots, which they claim as their own.
kylenorth commented on the word confiscate
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September 22, 2010