Expropriate is an English word with synonyms like deprive or strip. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Expropriate meaning
- To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.
- To surrender a claim to private property without material compensation; to deprive oneself of private propriety rights.
Using Expropriate
- The main meaning on this page is: To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use. | To surrender a claim to private property without material compensation; to deprive oneself of private propriety rights.
- Useful related words include: deprive, strip, divest.
- In the example corpus, expropriate often appears in combinations such as: to expropriate, expropriate the, would expropriate.
Context around Expropriate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Expropriate
- In this selection, "expropriate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, substantial, property and people stand out and add context to how "expropriate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include backing to expropriate these lands and city to expropriate in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "expropriate" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with expropriate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That I will expropriate to create a state economy? (9 words)
Cuza got his parliament's backing to expropriate these lands. (10 words)
The ANC has recently announced its intention to expropriate property without compensation. (12 words)
In order to get the land for Depot Harbour and the rail line, Mr. Booth used provisions of the Indian Act that allowed him to expropriate a total of 425 acres of land away from the First Nation, so long as it was for railway purposes. (46 words)
According to Gutiérrez Valdizán, Facebook pages suddenly named El Informante or El Informador (The Informer) would post that the leftist candidate Sandra Torres, who lost in the second round, would expropriate people’s property and cars. (36 words)
They also allowed the city to expropriate, in the public interest, not only land for new streets, but all of the building sites on both sides of the new streets, an asset of enormous value. (35 words)
That I will expropriate to create a state economy? (9 words)
Example sentences (16)
In a thirty-page verdict on Thursday, Judge Francis Amum Awin nullified an order dated May 27, 2021 from the Ministry of General Education, which sought to expropriate the property.
A less palatable option might be for the Municipality to expropriate the property at a fair price, rehabilitate it and sell it on the open market or develop it as green space.
As South Africa’s government mulls over whether to expropriate some land from white owners and return it to the country’s black majority, her work has become all the more urgent – and complicated.
It would expropriate substantial wealth that had been accumulated prudently and honestly over the years and would do so in a cavalier and discriminatory manner.
The ANC has recently announced its intention to expropriate property without compensation.
According to Gutiérrez Valdizán, Facebook pages suddenly named El Informante or El Informador (The Informer) would post that the leftist candidate Sandra Torres, who lost in the second round, would expropriate people’s property and cars.
Ambitious politicians can claim they know what is just and use their power to expropriate wealth and property from whom they choose and redistribute to whom they choose.
In order to get the land for Depot Harbour and the rail line, Mr. Booth used provisions of the Indian Act that allowed him to expropriate a total of 425 acres of land away from the First Nation, so long as it was for railway purposes.
All land remains state land, and government, at its discretion, can expropriate farms allocated to beneficiaries anytime.
That I will expropriate to create a state economy?
When officials tried to expropriate the property in 2004, they got burned.
Cuza got his parliament's backing to expropriate these lands.
He dared not expropriate the properties of foreign landowners, who were mostly Argentines.
Soilih did expropriate the facilities of a foreign oil company, but only after the government of Madagascar took over the company's plants in that country.
They also allowed the city to expropriate, in the public interest, not only land for new streets, but all of the building sites on both sides of the new streets, an asset of enormous value.
Until 1968, the university had the power to expropriate land "it may deem necessary for the purpose of the university" without approval from the government.
Common combinations with expropriate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to expropriate 14×
- expropriate the 6×
- would expropriate 2×
- expropriate land 2×