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. 佈爾什維尅征收了地主的土地。

2. expropriationN-VAR

...the expropriation of property. ...財(cái)産的征收。

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