to confiscate land for redistribution (China, 1947-52)
(of a government) to acquire land (with compensation)
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
这个共和国将采取某种必要的方法,没收地主的土地,分配给无地和少地的农民,实行中山先生“耕者有其田”的口号。
這個共和國將採取某種必要的方法,沒收地主的土地,分配給無地和少地的農民,實行中山先生“耕者有其田”的口號。
zhè ge gòng hé guó jiāng cǎi qǔ mǒu zhǒng bì yào de fāng fǎ , mò shōu dì zhǔ de tǔ dì , fēn pèi gěi wú dì hé shǎo dì de nóng mín , shí xíng zhōng shān xiān shēng “ gēng zhě yǒu qí tián ” de kǒu hào .
The republic will take certain necessary steps to confiscate the land of the landlords and distribute it to those peasants having little or no land, carry out Dr. Sun Yat-sen's slogan of "land to the tiller".