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    ex·pro·pri·ate
    [ˌeksˈprōprēˌāt]
    verb
    expropriate (verb) · expropriates (third person present) · expropriated (past tense) · expropriated (past participle) · expropriating (present participle)
    1. (especially of the state) take away (property) from its owner:
      "government plans to expropriate farmland"
      • dispossess (someone) of property:
        "the land reform expropriated the Irish landlords"
    Origin
    late 16th century: from medieval Latin expropriat- ‘taken from the owner’, from the verb expropriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + proprium ‘property’, neuter singular of proprius ‘own’.
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