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expropriationnoun the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authoritythe development of the colony involved expropriation of large tracts of fertile farmland from the natives appropriation, arrogation, commandeering, detainer, preemption, seizure, takeover, usurpation annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestrationdefalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theftdespoilment, looting, pillagingencroachment, infringement, piracyinvasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespassdeforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping in the 15th century |