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confiscation

[ kon-fuh-skey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act, as a penalty, of seizing or appropriating something for public use or for ownership by the state:

    The government introduced a bill allowing the confiscation of property belonging to foreign states.

  2. the act of seizing something by or as if by authority:

    In order to avoid confiscation of their cell phones under the strict new rule, many teens only became more secretive about using them.



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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 苍辞苍路肠辞苍路蹿颈蝉路肠补路迟颈辞苍 noun
  • 辫谤辞路肠辞苍路蹿颈蝉路肠补路迟颈辞苍 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of confiscation1

First recorded in 1540鈥50; from Latin 肠艒苍蹿颈蝉肠腻迟颈艒苍-, stem of 肠艒苍蹿颈蝉肠腻迟颈艒 鈥渟eizure,鈥 from 肠艒苍蹿颈蝉肠腻迟(耻蝉) 鈥渟eized鈥 (past participle of 肠艒苍蹿颈蝉肠腻谤别 鈥渢o seize for the public treasury鈥; confiscate ( def ) ) + -颈艒 -ion ( def )
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Thames Valley Police said it obtained a confiscation order for a "nominal sum" of 拢1, which allowed a "parallel financial investigation" to be carried out.

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Ms MacVicar feared that if a criminal confiscation order was granted, the remainder of the cash owed would have gone to the Treasury.

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At least one student rebelled, leading to the confiscation of a phone during physical education, reported an 8th-grader at Walter Reed, who asked not to be named.

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The settlement also came with an apology from the government for the confiscation of Mt Taranaki and more than a million acres of land from local M膩ori in the 1860s.

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At a hearing in November, Hughes contested a property he had built on land belonging to his parents in Ireland was not an available asset for confiscation proceedings.

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