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
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
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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