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How to pronounce spoliation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation
Type of plundering, pillage, pillaging
Derivation spoil
Type Words
Type of destruction, devastation
Derivation spoil

Examples of spoliation

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Local environmentalists have been denouncing the spoliation for years, with little effect.
From the dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
Spoliation is the destruction or alteration of evidence through intention or ignorance.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Spoliation is a legal term for destruction of evidence in pending or reasonably foreseeable litigation.
From the thenewstribune.com
The only exception to the rule of spoliation and exhaustion was Egypt, because of the overflow of the Nile.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Carlo Botta, born in 1766, was a spectator of French spoliation in Italy and of the overbearing rule of Napoleon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This rapid increase in population leads to infrastructure overload, the spoliation of the city centre and a steady degradation of the public realm.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Considering the systematic spoliation committed by the USSR in Romania, to say that Romania counted on it to build its roads is just preposterous.
From the economist.com
Your link deals with digital spoliation, which is a subtopic of computer forensics, so it isn't very relevant to the Computer forensics article.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It seemed then that the ancestral seats which were our chief national artistic achievement were doomed to decay and spoliation like the monasteries in the sixteenth century.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
  • Spoil: the act of stripping and taking by force
  • The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation; Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea; The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect
  • (spoliate) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob; To engage in robbery; to plunder
  • Spoliation is the destruction of records which may be relevant to ongoing or anticipated litigation, government investigation or audit. Courts differ in their interpretation of the level of intent required before sanctions may be warranted.
  • The deliberate or inadvertent modification, loss or destruction of evidence by a party who as been put on notice of litigation but has failed to take appropriate steps to preserve potentially relevant data.
  • Any erasure, interlineation, or other alteration made to COMMERCIAL PAPER, such as a check or promissory note, by an individual who is not acting pursuant to the consent of the parties who have an interest in such instrument.
  • This refers to an act by the landlord which prevents the tenant from having peaceful undisturbed access to the property. Commonly, spoliation happens when the tenant has not paid their rent and the landlord retaliates by disconnecting utilities or locks the tenant out of the property. ...