expropriate meaning

Definition of expropriate

1. deprive of possessions
   • The Communist government expropriated the landowners

   Type of: deprive

   Related forms: expropriation

expropriate in a sentence

• After the war, the church's properties were expropriated.
• The socialist insurgency expropriated the Apostolic Palace.
• We need to expropriate the collaborators in order to fill the war chest back up.
• This land was expropriated from its original owner decades ago.
• Many Algerians were expropriated by the French colonial authorities.

How to pronounce expropriate

expropriate is pronounced /ɛkˈsproʊprieɪt/ in American English. It has 4 syllables, with the stress on the second syllable.

Words that rhyme with expropriate

• misappropriate