The Communist government expropriated the landowners.
Examples of expropriate
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They claim that the SDRM would expropriate the rights of existing bondholders.
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We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us.
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Chavez announced plans to expropriate the company in a televised speech late Monday.
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Demanding the government expropriate more of other people's money is another matter.
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Then Argentina can just screw them again and expropriate all that it sold.
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Chavez announced plans to expropriate the company in a televised speech Monday night.
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During the banking crisis she did her best to expropriate more of them.
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On March 13th, for instance, the government issued its first order to expropriate a farm.
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When Congress wanted to expropriate the building for the Supreme Court, Washington said no.
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Deprive of possessions; "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"
(expropriation) taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
Eminent domain (United States), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (South Africa and Canada) is the inherent power of the state to seize a citizen's private property, expropriate property, or seize a citizen' ...
To deprive a person of their property. To confiscate. Usually in reference to taking property for public use
(Expropriation) Taking of private property by the state for public use, with fair compensation to the owner, through the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
(Expropriation) The taking of property or some other thing by governmental authority.
(Expropriation) Canada: the forced sale of land to a public authority. Synonymous to the USA doctrine of "eminent domain".
(Expropriation) Procedure where a property is taken over, usually by local authorities, for specific purposes in the public interest.
(Expropriation) The annexation or seizure of national assets as an extreme form of political action.