confiscation

English

Etymology

From Middle French confiscation.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

confiscation (countable and uncountable, plural confiscations)

The act or process of confiscating.

Translations

the act or process of confiscating an item from public use; expropriation

Arabic: اِسْتِيلَاء‎ m (istīlāʾ)
Bulgarian: конфиска́ция (bg) f (konfiskácija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沒收 (zh), 没收 (zh) (mòshōu), 充公 (zh) (chōnggōng)
Czech: konfiskace f
Esperanto: konfisko
Finnish: takavarikko (fi)
French: confiscation (fr) f
German: Konfiszierung f, Konfiskation (de) f

Greek: κατάσχεση (el) f (katáschesi)
Italian: confisca (it) f
Japanese: 没収 (ぼっしゅう, bosshū)
Polish: konfiskata (pl) f
Portuguese: confisco (pt) m, confiscação f
Russian: конфиска́ция (ru) f (konfiskácija), реквизи́ция (ru) f (rekvizícija)
Spanish: confiscación (es) f, comiso (es) m, decomiso (es) m
Swedish: konfiskering c
Welsh: siêd m

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

confiscation f (plural confiscations)

confiscation

Further reading

“confiscation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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