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Expropriation   /ˌɛksprˌoʊpriˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Expropriation

noun
1.
Taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority).





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"Expropriation" Quotes from Famous Books



... While a certain diffusion of wealth takes place through the mechanism of capitalist concentration, by developing a new class of highly salaried officials, and enabling numerous small investors to own shares in great industrial and commercial corporations, it is not sufficient to balance the expropriation which goes on in the competitive struggle, and it is true that a larger proportion of the national wealth is owned by a minority of the population than ever before, that minority being proportionately less numerous ...
— Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo


Words linked to "Expropriation" :   confiscation, arrogation, expropriate


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