verb
definition
To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.
Examples of expropriated in a Sentence
Two-fifths of the land belongs to the state, and two-fifths more to the various communes; the remaining fifth is minutely subdivided among a large number of small proprietors, many of whom have been expropriated from inability to pay the taxes, which, considering the low value of the land, are too heavy; while the state is unable to let a large proportion of its lands.
The owners of the expropriated properties are given a term of five months for the removal of their furniture.
Compensation for the expropriated land and the categories of land to be expropriated without compensation will be determined by a special law.
The local market price will form the basis of the indemnity for the live stock and implements to be expropriated.
The House of Worship was then expropriated again and made into an art galley.
The capitalist class is saved, but politically expropriated.
Eight monasteries were expropriated to make room for the chief state departments, pending the construction of more suitable edifices.
Along with the land are expropriated all claims and rights appended to the land and all instruments of husbandry, live stock included, with the exception of such industrial establishments as are not working to satisfy the local rural demand only.
Lands with an acreage below 246 ac. are not expropriated.
The Radicals of Serbia being conservative in all but name, made a working alliance with the clericals of Zagreb and Ljubljana, and under the leadership of Protic favoured decentralization, combined with concessions to the expropriated landowners.
By the promise of loo million dinars to the expropriated Begs, he won over the Moslems of Bosnia, and by similar methods he detached the Slovene section of the newly founded Agricultural party (Zemljoradnici).