confiscate: [16] Confiscate’s etymological connotations are financial: the Latin verb confīscāre meant ‘appropriate to the public treasury’. It was formed from the collective prefix com- and fiscus. This meant originally ‘rush-basket’; it was applied to the baskets used by tax collectors, and hence came to mean ‘public treasury’ (English gets fiscal from it). The looser sense of confiscate, ‘seize by authority’, dates from the early 19th century. => fiscal
confiscate (v.)
1550s, originally, "to appropriate for the treasury," from Latin confiscatus, past participle of confiscare, from com- "together" (see com-) + fiscus "public treasury," literally "money basket" (see fiscal). Related: Confiscated; confiscating.
雙語例句
1. There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
有人擔心警方利用該法罰沒犯下輕罪的人的財產。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Make maximum use of legislation to confiscate the proceeds of drug trafficking.
善用現行法律以充公販毒得益.
來自互聯網
3. The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.
如發現違禁貨物,警方有權查扣.
來自互聯網
4. No entity or individual shall confiscate or detain any motor vehicle plate.
任何單位和個人不得收繳、扣留機動車號牌.
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5. A: Will you give me your camera? We have to confiscate your film.