Usually means: Government seizure of private property.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word expropriation:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. expropriation: Merriam-Webster
  2. expropriation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expropriation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. expropriation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Expropriation, expropriation: Wordnik
  6. expropriation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. expropriation: Wiktionary
  8. expropriation: Dictionary.com
  9. expropriation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Expropriation, The Expropriation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Expropriation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. expropriation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. expropriation: Rhymezone
  14. Expropriation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. expropriation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. expropriation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expropriation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. expropriation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. expropriation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. expropriation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. expropriation: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. EXPROPRIATION: Accounting Glossary
  8. Expropriation: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Expropriation: Investopedia
  10. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. expropriation: Legal dictionary
  12. expropriation: Financial dictionary
  13. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. expropriation: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expropriation)

noun:  The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.

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