expropriations
Forced property transfers
Expropriations are acts of taking property or assets from their owners, typically by a government or other authority.
The term usually implies compulsion—the owner has no choice in the matter—and often suggests that compensation, if any, is inadequate or contested.
The expropriations of farmland displaced thousands of families.
While governments may justify expropriations as serving the public interest, the word carries connotations of seizure rather than fair purchase.
Government acquisition of industry
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- eminent domainForced government land acquisition
- requisitionFormal order for supplies
commandeering · land reform · collectivization · dispossession · forfeiture · condemnation · sequestration · impoundment
Sharing out again differently
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- agrarian reformRedistributing agricultural land ownership
- kulaksLanded Russian peasantry
- haciendasSpanish colonial estates
peasant uprising · Bolshevik · class struggle · bourgeoisie · proletariat · seizure · oligarchy · feudalism
Deprival of property rights
- land grabbingForcible acquisition of territory
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- settler colonialismOccupation displacing native peoples
- encomiendaForced indigenous labor grant
conquest · annexation · forced relocation · tribal lands · reservations · enclosure · partition · plantation
Payment for services rendered
- fair market valueObjective exchange price
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- litigationLegal dispute process
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
valuation · appeal · judicial review · indemnification · assessment · arbitration · legal remedy · title transfer
nationalization
Government acquisition of industry
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- eminent domainForced government land acquisition
requisition · commandeering · land reform · collectivization · dispossession · forfeiture · condemnation · sequestration · impoundment · annexation
redistribution
Sharing out again differently
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- agrarian reformRedistributing agricultural land ownership
- kulaksLanded Russian peasantry
haciendas · peasant uprising · Bolshevik · class struggle · bourgeoisie · proletariat · seizure · oligarchy · feudalism · commune
dispossession
Deprival of property rights
- land grabbingForcible acquisition of territory
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- settler colonialismOccupation displacing native peoples
encomienda · conquest · annexation · forced relocation · tribal lands · reservations · enclosure · partition · plantation · decolonization
compensation
Payment for services rendered
- fair market valueObjective exchange price
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- litigationLegal dispute process
tribunal · valuation · appeal · judicial review · indemnification · assessment · arbitration · legal remedy · title transfer · deed
- Cuba-US RelationsCuban embargo, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, trade embargo, normalization
- ChavismoHugo Chavez, Venezuela
expropriationsprivatizations
Sales of public assets
divestitures · restitutions · returns · sell-offs · land grants
expropriationspurchases
Goods obtained for money
acquisitions · buyouts · bequests · gifts · donations