expropriate

1. V-T If a government or other authority expropriates someone's property, they take it away from them for public use. 征收[法律]

The Bolsheviks expropriated the property of the landowners. 布爾什維克征收了地主的土地。

2. expropriationN-VAR

...the expropriation of property. ...財產(chǎn)的征收。

Ownership is not clear because of expropriations in the Nazi era. 所有權因納粹時期的征收而不明。