takings clause
(also taking clause) US Law
noun
A clause in a constitution allowing a government to expropriate private property for public use or benefit; chiefly specifically the final clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Michigan Law Review.
- polychromist
- stick in one's throat (or craw)
- stick insect
- stick-in-the-mud
- stick it to
- stickleback
- stickler
- sticklike
- stick-nest rat
- stick one (or it) on
- stick one's neck out
- stick (or poke) one's bib in
- stick out
- stick out a mile
- stick out for
- stick out like a sore thumb
- stickpin
- sticks and stones may break my bones but names (or words) will never hurt me
- stickseed
- stick shift
- stick someone/thing up
- stick something on
- stick to
- stick together
- stick-to-it-iveness