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Today's word is:
expropriate
|ˌeksˈprōprēˌāt|
verb [ with obj. ]
(esp. of the state) take away (property) from its owner: government plans to expropriate farmland.
- dispossess (someone) of property: the land reform expropriated the Irish landlords.
ORIGIN: late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin expropriat- 'taken from the owner,' from the verb expropriare, from ex- 'out, from' + proprium 'property,' neuter singular of proprius 'own.'