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Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.
Dinesh D'Souza

Meaning of "confiscatory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFISCATORY

confiscatory  [kənˈfɪskətərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFISCATORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confiscatory is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONFISCATORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of confiscatory in the English dictionary

The definition of confiscatory in the dictionary is involving confiscation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFISCATORY


applicatory
ˈæplɪkətərɪ
educatory
ˈɛdjʊkətərɪ
equivocatory
ɪˈkwɪvəkətərɪ
evocatory
ɪˈvɒkətərɪ
excommunicatory
ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkətərɪ
expiscatory
ɛksˈpɪskətərɪ
explicatory
ɪkˈsplɪkətərɪ
indicatory
ɪnˈdɪkətərɪ
invocatory
ɪnˈvɒkətərɪ
judicatory
ˈdʒuːdɪkətərɪ
laboratory
ləˈbɒrətərɪ
masticatory
ˈmæstɪkətərɪ
piscatory
ˈpɪskətərɪ
precatory
ˈprɛkətərɪ
provocatory
prəˈvɒkətərɪ
qualificatory
ˈkwɒlɪfɪkətərɪ
reciprocatory
rɪˈsɪprəkətərɪ
revocatory
ˈrɛvəkətərɪ
self-deprecatory
ˌsɛlfˈdɛprɪkətərɪ
significatory
sɪɡˈnɪfəkətərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFISCATORY

confirmatory
confirmed
confirmed credit
confirmed letter of credit
confirmedly
confirmee
confirmer
confirmings
confirmor
confiscable
confiscatable
confiscate
confiscation
confiscator
confiserie
confiseur
confit
Confiteor
confiture
confix

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFISCATORY

ambulatory
anti-inflammatory
circulatory
conservatory
defamatory
derogatory
directory
discriminatory
explanatory
exploratory
inflammatory
migratory
obligatory
observatory
oscillatory
participatory
predatory
preparatory
regulatory
research laboratory
respiratory

Synonyms and antonyms of confiscatory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «confiscatory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFISCATORY

Find out the translation of confiscatory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confiscatory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confiscatory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

没收
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confiscatorio
570 millions of speakers

English

confiscatory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

confiscatory
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المصادرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

конфискационный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confiscatória
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাজেয়াপ্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

confiscatoire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perundingan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

enteignungs
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

没収の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

몰수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Confiscatory
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trưng thu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பறிமுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जप्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

insafsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

di confisca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

konfiskaty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

конфіскаційний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spoliatoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δημευτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

confiscatory
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

confiscatory
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

confiscatory
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confiscatory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFISCATORY»

The term «confiscatory» is normally little used and occupies the 111.840 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFISCATORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confiscatory

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QUOTES WITH «CONFISCATORY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confiscatory.
1
Dinesh D'Souza
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFISCATORY»

Discover the use of confiscatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confiscatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How I Clobbered Every Cash-Confiscatory Agency Known To Man
M.E. Croft. Mary Elizabeth: Croft HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN. How I Clobbered Every Cash-Confiscatory Agency Known To Man ... a Spiritual Economics Book on ...
M.E. Croft
2
International Economic Law
The Tribunal thus arrives at the conclusion that the 'take—over' of AMINOIL'S enterprise was not, in 1977, inconsistent with the contract of concession, provided always that the nationalisation did not possess any confiscatory character.42 In ...
Andreas F. Lowenfeld, 2008
3
Modern Studies in Property Law
Even in its most extreme manifestation this doctrine of confiscatory regulation does not permit recovery of compensation for every possible speculative use. Justice Scalia stressed that whether there has been a confiscatory taking will depend ...
Elizabeth Cooke, 2001
4
Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery ...
The fines contained two parts: a punitive component and a confiscatory component. The confiscatory component is equal to the financial benefits acquired by Siemens through bribery. Calculating the Benefit In determining the amount of the ...
OECD, 2012
5
Florida Advance Sheet January 2012
The percentage shall be only the rate necessary to ensure that the fees paid are not confiscatory Page 4 under common law. The percentage may not exceed 200 percent of the established flat fee, absent a specific finding that 200 percent of ...
6
Money, Sound and Unsound
Confiscatory Deflation As suggested above, not all types of deflation are the outcome of benign market processes. There does exist an emphatically malign form of deflation that is coercively imposed by governments and their central banks ...
Salerno, Joseph T.
7
Sustainable Development in World Investment Law
3 (Argentinian Supreme Courtfound taxes of 34.35 and 50% confiscatory); Corn Products Refining Company Claim (1951–1954) 1955 I.L.R. 333, at 333–336 ( post war tax three times the pre-war value confiscatory); Elihu Lauterpacht (ed.) ...
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Markus W. Gehring, Andrew Paul Newcombe, 2011
8
Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation ...
treated as confiscatory. A good illustration is Pittsburgh v. Alco Parking Corp. ( 417 U.S. 369 [1974]). There the City of Pittsburgh had imposed a tax of 20% of the gross receipts ofa privately operated parking facility. This did not depend on a  ...
Mark Kantor, Michael D. Nolan, Karl P. Sauvant, 2011
9
International Law in Historical Perspective
But even where the aliens are subject to the jurisdiction, the imposition of such a confiscatory sanction on them by the court may nevertheless be inadmissible. In addition to its unlawfulness, as a matter of course, in cases where the legislation  ...
J. H. W. Verzijl, 1973
10
The Power to Tax: Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution
Even in the absence of any binding agreement and in the presence of some positive saving by the taxpayer, a Leviathan government may refrain from imposing a confiscatory tax over some sequence of periods. It might do better over some ...
Geoffrey Brennan, James M. Buchanan, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFISCATORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confiscatory is used in the context of the following news items.
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Supporters of highway tolls have hijacked our nation's roadways
Tolls are a punitive, confiscatory tax, and billions of dollars from our gas taxes and other public money are propping up toll roads that can't pay ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
2
Dick Morris: Bernie hogties Hillary
His advocacy of a reduced retirement age, a confiscatory top bracket on the income tax, a single-payer socialized medicine system and a $15 ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
3
Tim Dewey: A chance to bring sense to chaos of our tax rules
A confiscatory 55 per cent tax take on the excess. No wonder that Paul Johnson, who undertook research for the Institute of Fiscal Studies into ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
4
You can't manage disruptive technology
... Comic-Con, when you would think there would be no shortage of connected-generation riders looking for a cheaper trip than the confiscatory ... «San Diego CityBEAT, Jul 15»
5
Why the Greek “No” Vote Was a Good Thing
Yet Western governments continue to hamper entrepreneurship, business development and investment with confiscatory taxes, anti-growth ... «The Market Oracle, Jul 15»
6
Israel's populist energy crisis
... demanded a confiscatory cut in the profits from the energy resource Israel now enjoys only because private companies invested hundreds of ... «Canada Free Press, Jul 15»
7
Cal Thomas is too gloomy, say reader
We can avoid confiscatory taxes by using business ethics that say 51 percent of anyone's income or wealth is a “controlling interest” to be ... «Examiner Enterprise, Jul 15»
8
Economics is for people, says Piketty
... tax he recommends is a "utopian" dream, he also says a confiscatory tax rate of more than 80% on earnings exceeding $1m would work. «BDlive, Jul 15»
9
Highland Capital Global Allocation Fund Announces Details of …
... standards, nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory taxation, currency blockages and political changes of diplomatic developments. «Business Wire, Jul 15»
10
Conspiracy of silence
... said he watches Downton Abbey, a TV show that is basically opposed to progressive ideology, redistributionism and confiscatory taxation. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

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