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confiscation

noun as in seizure

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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.

From BBC

Ms MacVicar feared that if a criminal confiscation order was granted, the remainder of the cash owed would have gone to the Treasury.

From BBC

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.

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.

From BBC

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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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