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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

expropriação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: expropriação

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Expropriation/ɛkˌsproʊ.priˈeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A expropriação foi contestada pelos proprietários."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit.

    "The government announced the expropriation of land to build the new highway."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Medieval Latin word 'expropriatio', formed from the prefix 'ex-' (out of, from) and 'propriare' (to appropriate or make one's own, derived from 'proprius' meaning own). Entering English in the late 17th century via French, the term historically evolved from a legal concept denoting the voluntary surrender of property to its modern application where a state or authority takes private property for public use.

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