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    [Verb]  | "ex*pro*pri*ate" | \ ek-ˈsprō-prē-ˌāt \


    1: to deprive of possession or proprietary rights

    2: to transfer (the property of another) to one's own possession


    Origin: 1611 ;

     Medieval Latin expropriatus, past participle of expropriare, from Latin ex- + proprius own;

    [Verb]  | "expropriated" 


    1: to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right;


      * e.g., " ... dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime "



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    2: to end the occupancy or possession of;


      * e.g., " ... the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road "



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    3: to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority;


      * e.g., " ... plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport "



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    [Verb]  | "expropriate" 


    1: to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right;


      * e.g., " ... dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime "



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    2: to end the occupancy or possession of;


      * e.g., " ... the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road "



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    3: to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority;


      * e.g., " ... plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport "



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     [ "expropriate" ]

    1: ex·pro·pri·ate

      * e.g.,  ... expropriated the property owners who lived in the path of the new highway. 


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    3: tr.v.:


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    4:  ex·pro·pri·at·ed, ex·pro·pri·at·ing,


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    5:  ex·pro·pri·ates


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    6: (1) To deprive of possession:


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    7: (2) To transfer (another's property) to


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    8:  oneself.


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    10: Medieval Latin exproprire, exproprit- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin proprire, to appropriate (from proprius, one's own. See proper).


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    12: ex·propri·ation n.


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    13: ex·propri·ator n.


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    14: ex·propri·a·tory (--tôr, -tr) adj.

     [ "Cultural expropriation" ]

    1: The arrogant exclusion of the keeper of one culture with the derision and whitesplaining of the person's own culture added. Used extensively towards greek people and ancient egyptian people (the first mediterranean the second mixed mostly caucasian bit with a 12% of black that would make them called the n word). The depictions of greeks in vases and ruins mostly are mediterran like most modern greeks not northern europeans and the ones of egyptians only a very stupid person would confuse with the people who are acceptedas white. It's culture approppriation that gatekeeps the native of the culture approppriated. For example a museum refuse to give back stolen arts to greek with the excuse that they are lazy (they work way more hours and have less holidays and less gain on average than any northwesternern european) or that the thieves understand better the classic culture stolen

      * e.g.,  ... Racist person either from "left" EU style or a conservative doing cultural expropriation :you greek are degenerated to your nordic ancestors Not self hating greek: even if they were nordic their descendants speak an hellenic language not a germanic language you are the one unrelated 

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