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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

征用

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhēngyòng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Expropriation/ɛkˌsproʊpriˈeɪʃən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #25400 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这项基础设施建设计划涉及土地征用。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit.

    "The government announced the expropriation of land to build the new highway."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Late Latin expropriationem, noun of action from past-participle stem of expropriare 'to dispossess', from ex- 'out, from' + proprius 'one's own'.

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