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Definition of Appropriation

1. Noun. Money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose.

2. Noun. Incorporation by joining or uniting.

3. Noun. A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner. "A person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest"

Definition of Appropriation

1. n. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

Definition of Appropriation

1. Noun. An act or instance of appropriating ¹

2. Noun. That which is appropriated ¹

3. Noun. public funds set aside for a specific purpose ¹

4. Noun. (arts) the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work ¹

5. Noun. (sociology) the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Appropriation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appropriation

appropinquation appropinquity approportionate appropriabilities appropriability appropriable appropriament appropriaments appropriate appropriated

appropriately appropriateness appropriates appropriatin' appropriating appropriation (current term) appropriation bill appropriationist appropriations appropriative

appropriativeness appropriator appropriators approprinquated approprinquates approprinquating approvable approvableness approvably approval

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