Confiscate - English meaning

verb

Add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.

Usage examples:

The first ten amendments were annexed to the constitution in 1791

noun

A building joined to or associated with a main building, providing additional space or accommodation.

Usage examples:

The school's one-storey wooden annex

verb

To take possession of an area of land or a country and add it to a larger area, usually by force

Usage examples:

The united states annexed parts of texas and new mexico, which belonged to mexico., [ u ] the annex…

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

verb

Join or fasten (something) to something else.

Usage examples:

Attach your safety line to the bridge

verb

To fasten, join, or connect something

Usage examples:

Attach something to something i attached a photo to my application form., use this cable to attach …

verb

To join a file such as a document, picture, or computer program, to an email

verb

Officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes.

Usage examples:

A nearby house had been commandeered by the army

verb

Take arbitrarily or by force

verb

To take possession or control of private property, esp. by force

Usage examples:

Some visitors commandeered outdoor tables on the balcony.

verb

Seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed.

Usage examples:

Legislation has restricted the right to distrain goods found upon the premises

verb

To take and sell property from someone who owes you money in order to pay back their debt

Usage examples:

Under the law, landlords have a legal right to distrain goods from a defaulting tenant in lieu of r…

verb

(of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit.

Usage examples:

Their assets were expropriated by the government

verb

To take and keep money or property belonging to someone else

verb

If a government expropriates property, it takes it for public use, sometimes without payment to the owner

Usage examples:

The new regime wiped out organized crime and vice, expropriated factories and built new ones, setti…

verb

Seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law.

Usage examples:

Vehicles parked where they cause an obstruction will be impounded

verb

Distrain or impound (a person's property).

Usage examples:

The bailiff and his men poind his goods in the name of the law

noun

An official order laying claim to the use of property or materials.

Usage examples:

I had to make various requisitions for staff and accommodation

verb

Demand the use or supply of (something) by official order.

Usage examples:

The government had assumed powers to requisition cereal products at fixed prices

noun

A formal or official request for something needed

Usage examples:

[ c ] the staff made a requisition for new desks., the army requisitioned all the trucks in the reg…

verb

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly.

Usage examples:

She jumped up and seized his arm

verb

Take hold of; grab

verb

To take something quickly and hold it

Usage examples:

He seized her arm to lead her through the crowd., fig. while she was distracted, i seized the oppor…

verb

Isolate or hide away.

Usage examples:

She is sequestered in deepest dorset

noun

Another term for sequestrate.

Usage examples:

Their property was sequestered by parliament

verb

To keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case

Usage examples:

The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

verb

Take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.

Usage examples:

The power of courts to sequestrate the assets of unions

verb

→  sequester

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands

phrasal verb

Buy food at a cafe or restaurant for eating elsewhere.

Usage examples:

He ordered a lamb madras to take away

verb

To move something or someone from one place to another

Usage examples:

Please, take me with you!, it may rain, so take your umbrella., the suitcases were taken to madrid …

verb

To subtract one number or amount from another

Usage examples:

Take sth from sth you'll need to take $2,000 from the $8,000 to allow for tax., take sth/sb off (st…

phrase

To start to use and control something such as a building or piece of land that you may or may not own

Usage examples:

We've already bought the house but we won't take possession of it until may., if they can't pay the…