despoliation

Arabic translation: النهب

08:00 Feb 7, 2004
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: despoliation
to say that we entered the stage of capital export and investment is not to imply that the plunder of natural resources has seased, if anyting, the despoliation has accelerated
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Arabic translation:النهب
Explanation:
Despoliation is "the act of despoiling or the condition of being despoiled."

To despoil is to "sack, plunder, or rob."

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Fuad Yahya
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5 +2النهب
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5 +1تبديد المصادر الطبيعية
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النهب


Explanation:
Despoliation is "the act of despoiling or the condition of being despoiled."

To despoil is to "sack, plunder, or rob."




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Fuad Yahya
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تبديد المصادر الطبيعية


Explanation:
This how I understand the sentence.

Musab Hayatli
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic

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agree  Saleh Ayyub
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