Usually means: Seizing property with legal authority.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word confiscating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. confiscating: Merriam-Webster
  2. confiscating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confiscating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confiscating, confiscating: Wordnik
  5. confiscating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confiscating: Wiktionary
  7. Confiscating, confiscating: Dictionary.com
  8. confiscating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Confiscating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Confiscating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. confiscating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. confiscating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. confiscating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confiscating: Encyclopedia

(Note: See confiscate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confiscate)

verb:  (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
adjective:  (obsolete) Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
▸ Also see confiscate





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