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Expropriate   Listen
verb
Expropriate  v. t.  To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. "Expropriate these (bad landlords) as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Expropriate" Quotes from Famous Books



... was that they were "all wrong." The rich were robbers and knew it, kings and princes were usurpers and knew it, religious teachers were impostors in league with power, the economic system was an elaborate plot on the part of the few to expropriate the many. We went about feeling scornful of all the current forms of life, forms that esteemed themselves solid, that were, we knew, no more than shapes painted on a curtain that was ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

... probable that Mr. Churchill's project that the State should undertake to abolish unemployment altogether is the most radical of all the proposed policies, excepting only that to gradually expropriate all the ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling



Words linked to "Expropriate" :   strip, divest, deprive, expropriation



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