Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
expropriate .
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Examples
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To raise money for his bankrupt treasury, Juárez sold off lands that had been expropriated from the Church to hacendados (big landowners) who had supported the Liberal cause.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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To raise money for his bankrupt treasury, Juárez sold off lands that had been expropriated from the Church to hacendados (big landowners) who had supported the Liberal cause.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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To raise money for his bankrupt treasury, Juárez sold off lands that had been expropriated from the Church to hacendados (big landowners) who had supported the Liberal cause.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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A number of the aliyah kibbutzim relocated to farmland expropriated from the Germans by the Allied occupying forces and prepared themselves for communal life and working the land in pre-State Palestine.
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Last week he relaunched a chain of supermarkets his government had expropriated from a French-Colombian joint venture.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Last week he relaunched a chain of supermarkets his government had expropriated from a French-Colombian joint venture.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Last week, he relaunched a chain of supermarkets his government had expropriated from a French-Colombian joint venture.
Dose.ca Music briefs 2010
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hypermarkets his government expropriated from a French-Colombian group earlier this year, that he said were already turning a significantly higher profit.
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Rick Perry (R-TX) didn’t stick to his conservative economic principles to refuse this pork-u-lus money, expropriated from the American tax payer, you, Mr. Garofalo, would be the first to ream Gov.
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Rick Perry (R-TX) didn’t stick to his conservative economic principles to refuse this pork-u-lus money, expropriated from the American tax payer, you, Mr. Garofalo, would be the first to ream Gov.
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