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confiscate (verb)

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  • confiscate — ► VERB 1) take or seize (property) with authority. 2) appropriate to the public treasury as a penalty. DERIVATIVES confiscation noun confiscatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin confiscare put away in a chest, consign to the public treasury , from fiscus …   English terms dictionary

  • confiscate — con‧fis‧cate [ˈkɒnfskeɪt ǁ ˈkɑːn ] verb [transitive] LAW to officially take private property away from someone, for example because a crime has been committed: • The state can confiscate criminals profits from books or movies describing their… …   Financial and business terms

  • confiscate — con·fis·cate / kän fə ˌskāt/ vt cat·ed, cat·ing: to seize without compensation as forfeited to the public treasury compare criminal forfeiture ◇ Illegal items such as narcotics or firearms, or profits from the sale of illegal items, may be… …   Law dictionary

  • confiscate — verb To take possession of by force or authority; expropriate. In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions. Syn: appropriate, arrogate, usurp …   Wiktionary

  • confiscate — verb Confiscate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑passport, ↑property …   Collocations dictionary

  • confiscate — verb (T) to officially take private property away from someone, usually as a punishment: Miss Williams confiscated all our sweets. confiscation, noun (C, U): the confiscation of pornographic material confiscatory adjective …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • confiscate — verb the guards confiscated his camera Syn: impound, seize, commandeer, requisition, appropriate, expropriate, sequester, sequestrate, take (away); Law distrain Ant: return …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • confiscate — verb Syn: impound, seize, commandeer, requisition, appropriate, expropriate, sequester Ant: return …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • confiscate — [16] Confiscate’s etymological connotations are financial: the Latin verb confīscāre meant ‘appropriate to the public treasury’. It was formed from the collective prefix com and fiscus. This meant originally ‘rush basket’; it was applied to the… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • confiscate — [[t]kɒ̱nfɪskeɪt[/t]] confiscates, confiscating, confiscated VERB If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment. [V n from n] There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people …   English dictionary

  • confiscate — UK [ˈkɒnfɪˌskeɪt] / US [ˈkɑnfɪˌskeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms confiscate : present tense I/you/we/they confiscate he/she/it confiscates present participle confiscating past tense confiscated past participle confiscated to officially remove… …   English dictionary

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