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.
例文
1. There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
警察がこの法を利用して軽犯罪を犯していない人の財産を罰金することを心配する人がいる。
2.Make maximum use of legislation to confiscate the proceeds of drug trafficking.
現行法を用いて公売益を図る。
3.The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.
禁制貨物を発見した場合、警察は押収する権利がある。
4.No entity or individual shall confiscate or detain any motor vehicle plate.
任意の単位と個人は自動車ナンバープレートを回収、差し押さえてはならない。
5.A：Will you give me your camera？We have to confiscate your film.