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Definition of Appropriating
1. appropriate [v] - See also: appropriate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appropriating
Literary usage of Appropriating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"Among the acts passed were the following: appropriating $125000 to defray ...
appropriating $3000 to repair that portion of the appropriating $60000 to pay ..."
2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The problem of appropriating rent for the public is presented most sharply by
urban sites. The possibility of leases on long term by the state; ..."
3. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1890)
"... A Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 14th of January,
1836, on Mr. Benton's Resolutions for appropriating the Surplus Reve- one ..."
4. Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth by Kentucky (1878)
"Thomas Turner, of a bill appropriating one million seven hundred thousand dollars
to some of the rivers of our State, and wo earnestly request our Senators ..."
5. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1908)
"The question then came squarely upon appropriating certain moneys to execute the
British treaty, agreeably to a motion of Hillhouse on behalf of those ..."
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