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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

expropriation

The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.

W. Montagu.

The

expropriation

of bad landlords.

M. Arnold.

Noun.

The act of discarding appropriation, or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property.