Bosshuu

JLPT N1

没収 (Bosshuu) is a Japanese noun meaning “seizure, confiscation, impounding, sequestration”.

Meanings

  1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbseizure; confiscation; impounding; sequestration; forfeiture

Examples

  • If you leave your textbooks at school during the break, they'll get confiscated.

  • The soldiers seized food from the people they conquered.

Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Kanji in 没収

drownincome

Related words

collectionacquisition (esp. corporate)to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.)seizureformal receipt (of payment; oft. hand-written)to put (into)incomeharvestannual incomeabsorptionrecording (in a book, the minutes, etc.)removal (of a building, equipment, etc.)