compulsory purchase

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11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: onteigening — government's right to expropriate private land
• Finnish: pakkolunastus — government's right to expropriate private land
• French: expropriation — government's right to expropriate private land
• French: expropriation pour cause d'utilité publique — government's right to expropriate private land
• German: Enteignung — government's right to expropriate private land
• German: Zwangsenteignung — government's right to expropriate private land
• Italian: espropriazione per pubblica utilità — government's right to expropriate private land
• Polish: wywłaszczenie — government's right to expropriate private land
• Polish: ekspropriacja — government's right to expropriate private land
• Portuguese: desapropriação — government's right to expropriate private land
• Spanish: expropiación — government's right to expropriate private land