Confiscations is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Confiscations meaning
plural of confiscation
Using Confiscations
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of confiscation
- In the example corpus, confiscations often appears in combinations such as: confiscations and, and confiscations, confiscations of.
Context around Confiscations
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Confiscations
- In this selection, "confiscations" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, land, property, violent, triggered, relate and appears stand out and add context to how "confiscations" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by the confiscations of 41 and expropriations and confiscations of foreign. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "confiscations" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with confiscations
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Moreover, there were no wholesale confiscations of land or property. (10 words)
The various fines and confiscations levied on the elites helped to reduce taxes for everyone else. (16 words)
The chaotic, often violent confiscations triggered a collapse of the once productive agricultural sector and began a downward economic spiral. (20 words)
Eclogues 1 and 9 address the land confiscations and their effects on the Italian countryside. 2 and 3 are pastoral and erotic, discussing both homosexual love (Ecl. 2) and attraction toward people of any gender (Ecl. 3). (37 words)
The wave of confiscations appears to be paying off for the state, as more than 2.69 billion euros of old and fresh overdue debts has been collected since the start of the year. (34 words)
It is very likely that the confiscations relate to their coverage of the peaceful protests against the government that took place on 5 and 6 January in Khartoum, Aljazeera and Kassala states. (32 words)
Example sentences (14)
The chaotic, often violent confiscations triggered a collapse of the once productive agricultural sector and began a downward economic spiral.
Ideally, such assistance would even aim to furnish some kind of viable protection against settler violence, land confiscations, and other rights abuses.
It is very likely that the confiscations relate to their coverage of the peaceful protests against the government that took place on 5 and 6 January in Khartoum, Aljazeera and Kassala states.
The wave of confiscations appears to be paying off for the state, as more than 2.69 billion euros of old and fresh overdue debts has been collected since the start of the year.
As many as eighteen Roman towns through Italy were affected by the confiscations of 41 BC, with entire populations driven out.
Eclogues 1 and 9 address the land confiscations and their effects on the Italian countryside. 2 and 3 are pastoral and erotic, discussing both homosexual love (Ecl. 2) and attraction toward people of any gender (Ecl. 3).
Foreign traders often were subject to confiscations and other types of harassment if one of their countrymen had defaulted in a business transaction.
In January 1942, the town Jews ' identification cards were stamped with the letter "J", and confiscations started to be more and more common.
Moreover, there were no wholesale confiscations of land or property.
New and heavy taxes were levied against the bulk of the population, with additional fees and confiscations targeted at the wealthiest families.
Recent estimates of the cost to Palestinians in property confiscations by Israel from 1948 onwards has concluded that Palestinians have suffered a net $300 billion loss in assets.
The fines, expropriations, and confiscations of foreign-held property meant that the state quickly became the nation's largest landowner, eventually operating forty-five animal-breeding farms.
The independent Catholic Church in Poland was subjected to property confiscations and other curtailments from 1949, and in 1950 was pressured into signing an accord with the government.
The various fines and confiscations levied on the elites helped to reduce taxes for everyone else.
Common combinations with confiscations
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: