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Noun: compulsory purchase
Usage: Brit
  1. (law) the right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United States requires that just compensation be made
    - eminent domain

Derived forms: compulsory purchases

Type of: legal right

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