expropriate
- vt. 没收,征用;剥夺
词态变化
助记提示
2. => take away from one's own property, deprive of one's own property.
3. => a taking of someone's property, especially for public use.
中文词源
ex-, 向外。-propr, 自己的,词源同property, appropriate. 即自己的东西被拿走,后指征用。
英文词源
- expropriate (v.)
- 1610s, back-formation from expropriation, or from earlier adjective (mid-15c.), or from Medieval Latin expropriatus, past participle of expropriare "to deprive of one's own." Related: Expropriated; expropriating.