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confiscation

n. seizure by the government

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appropriation

n. a deliberate act of acquisition

seizure, capture, gaining control

n. the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property

assumption, laying claim

n. the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"

usurpation

n. wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority); "a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation"

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arrogation

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