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EMINENT DOMAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eminent domain mean? 

EMINENT DOMAIN (noun)
  The noun EMINENT DOMAIN has 1 sense:

1. 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 madeplay

  Familiarity information: EMINENT DOMAIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMINENT DOMAIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("eminent domain" is a kind of...):

legal right (a right based in law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)


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