CONFISCATION Definition & Meaning

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confiscation

[ kon-fuh-skey-shuhn ]

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noun

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.
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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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of confiscation¹

First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin ��ō�Դھ��پ�ō��-, stem of ��ō�Դھ��پ�ō “seizure,” from ��ō�Դھ��(�ܲ�) “seized” (past participle of ��ō�Դھ�� “to seize for the public treasury”; confiscate ( def ) ) + -��ō -ion ( def )

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Thames Valley Police said it obtained a confiscation order for a "nominal sum" of £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 Māori 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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