noun. The act of expropriating, or discarding appropriation or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property.

noun. The act of taking for public use upon providing compensation; condemnation by right of eminent domain.

noun. The act of dispossessing an owner, either wholly or to a limited extent, of his property or proprietary rights.

noun. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.

noun. The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.

noun. taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)

"There continues, as well, a certain expropriation of aspects of a generic “Latin” culture – the mojito/fajita craze as one example."

arrogation  confiscation  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

asif  banishment  butchery  chartist  coercion