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 (istīlāʔ)
Belarusian: канфіска́цыя f (kanfiskácyja)
Bulgarian: конфиска́ция (bg) f (konfiskácija)
Catalan: confiscació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沒收／没收 (zh) (mòshōu), 充公 (zh) (chōnggōng)
Czech: konfiskace f
Danish: konfiskation c, konfiskering c
Dutch: confiscatie (nl) f, verbeurdverklaring f
Esperanto: konfisko
Finnish: takavarikko (fi)
French: confiscation (fr) f
German: Konfiszierung f, Konfiskation (de) f
Greek: κατάσχεση (el) f (katáschesi)
Hungarian: elkobzás (hu)
Italian: confisca (it) f
Japanese: 没収 (ja) (ぼっしゅう, bosshū)
Latin: publicatio f
Occitan: confiscacion f
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 (sv) c
Turkish: el koymak (tr), haciz (tr), müsadere (tr)
Ukrainian: конфіска́ція f (konfiskácija)
Welsh: siêd m

French

Etymology

From Latin cōnfiscātiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

confiscation f (plural confiscations)

confiscation

Related terms

confisquer

Further reading

“confiscation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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