APPROPRIATION

appropriation

(noun) a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; “the necessary funds were obtained by the government’s appropriation of the company’s operating unit”; “a person’s appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest”

annexation, appropriation

(noun) incorporation by joining or uniting

appropriation

(noun) money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

appropriation (countable and uncountable, plural appropriations)

An act or instance of appropriating.

That which is appropriated.

Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.

(arts) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.

(sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.

In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.

In constitutional law, the principle that supplies granted by parliament are only to be expended for particular objects specified by itself.

Source: Wiktionary

Ap*pro`pri*a"tion, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

APPROPRIATION

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