Definitions for: 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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: annexation

See Also: acquiring, adoption, borrowing, getting, incorporation, money, pork, pork barrel, preemption, pre-emption, requisition, seizure, sequestration

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