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Confiscation

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Confiscation has 1 sense

confiscation(n = noun.act) arrogation - seizure by the government; Array

is a kind of seizure

has particulars: expropriation

Derived form verb confiscate₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Confiscation, n. [L. confiscatio.].

The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. [1913 Webster]

"The confiscations following a subdued rebellion." [1913 Webster]

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Confiscation

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Penalty

N penalty, retribution, pain, pains and penalties, weregild, wergild, peine forte et dure, penance, the devil to pay, fine, mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, escheat, damages, deodand, sequestration, confiscation, premunire, doomage.

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