单词 | expropriate |
释义 | ex·pro·pri·ate 1. 2. < the landowners expropriated the countryside, but they developed it — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < they have also expropriated another cherished word from the lexicon of western European peoples — R.G.Cowherd > — used especially of the action of a state < promulgate laws which tended to expropriate Jewish possessions — Collier's Year Book > < the government had expropriated nearly 68,000 hectares of privately owned property — Americana Annual > |
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