Usually means: Excessive or punitive property seizure.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word confiscatory:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. confiscatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. confiscatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confiscatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Confiscatory, confiscatory: Wordnik
  5. confiscatory: Wiktionary
  6. confiscatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. confiscatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. confiscatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Confiscatory, confiscatory: Dictionary.com
  10. Confiscatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. confiscatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Confiscatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. confiscatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. confiscatory: FreeDictionary.org
  15. confiscatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confiscatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. confiscatory: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confiscatory: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Using confiscation.

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usurpative, usurpatory, freebooting, caught stealing, instealing, antistuffing, incriminatory, pignorate, antismuggling, diversionistic, more...

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usurpative, usurpatory, freebooting, caught stealing, instealing, antistuffing, incriminatory, pignorate, antismuggling, diversionistic, more...



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