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発音

• IPA: /ɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

expropriation (countable and uncountable, plural expropriations)

1. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.
   • c. 1648, Walter Montagu, Devout Essaies.

     The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity.

参考

• eminent domain