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expropriation

NOUN
seizure
Synonyms


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District Judge Loretta Preska, who determined that two YPF shareholders were owed compensation for the 2012 expropriation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Refineries and other assets of foreign companies were seized; the government paid Exxon, Mobil, Gulf and Shell $1 billion each for the expropriation, well below the value of their holdings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

“The Americans forced one of the most entrepreneurial countries on Earth into an expropriation lite,” says Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

But the government's expropriation plans have divided opinion in Villa Baviera, where fewer than 100 adults live.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

In fact, "the whole question of expropriation is tacitly ignored in the literature of Christian Socialism."

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis