Expropriate

To “expropriate” (ek-SPROH-pree-ate) – from the Latin for “to deprive of property” – is to transfer someone else’s property to yourself.

Example (as used by Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times): “Very few voters, after all, really believe Europe’s new generation of social democratic leaders are wild Bolsheviks plotting to expropriate their Toyotas.”

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