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say it: ek-sproh-pree-AY-shuhn
expropriation is a noun meaning "taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)". It is pronounced /ˌɛkˌspɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/ — ek-sproh-pree-AY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for expropriation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.