About The Word Appropriation
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Appropriation
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What's The Definition Of Appropriation?
[n] a deliberate act of acquisition
[n] incorporation by joining or uniting [n] money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose Synonyms | Synonyms for Appropriation: annexation Related Terms | Find terms related to Appropriation: abstraction | adoption | allocation | allotment | annexation | appointment | arrogation | assignment | assumption | autoplagiarism | boosting | borrowed plumes | borrowing | colonization | conquest | conversion | conveyance | copying | cribbing | derivation | deriving | earmarking | embezzlement | encroachment | enslavement | filching | fraud | graft | imitation | indent | infringement | infringement of copyright | invasion | liberation | lifting | literary piracy | mocking | occupation | pasticcio | pastiche | pilferage | pilfering | pinching | piracy | pirating | plagiarism | plagiarizing | plagiary | playing God | poaching | preemption | preoccupation | prepossession | requisition | scrounging | seizure | setting aside | shoplifting | simulation | snatching | sneak thievery | snitching | stealage | stealing | subjugation | swindle | swiping | tagging | takeover | taking | taking over | theft | thievery | thieving | trespass | trespassing | usurpation See Also | acquiring | adoption | borrowing | getting | incorporation | money | pork | pork barrel | preemption | pre-emption | requisition | seizure | sequestration Appropriation In Webster's Dictionary \Ap*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. [L. appropriatio: cf. F.
appropriation.]
1. 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.
2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
The Commons watched carefully over the
appropriation. --Macaulay.
3. (Law)
(a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
(b) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his
creditor, to one of several debts which are due from
the former to the latter. --Chitty.
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