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Appropriation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APPROPRIA'TION, n.
1. The act of sequestering, or assigning to a particular use or person, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose; as, of a piece of ground for a park; of a right, to one's self; or of words, to ideas.
2. In law, the severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation, sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living. For this purpose must be obtained the king's license, the consent of the bishop and of the patron. When the appropriation is thus made, the appropriator and his successors become perpetual parsons of the church, and must sue and be sued in that name.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
2: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: annexation, appropriation]
3: 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"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. an act or instance of appropriating 2. something that has been appropriated; specifically money set aside by formal action for a specific use • appropriative adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Appropriation 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(appropriations) 1. An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose. (FORMAL) The government raised defence appropriations by 12 per cent. = allocation N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. Appropriation of something that belongs to someone else is the act of taking it, usually without having the right to do so. (FORMAL) Other charges include fraud and illegal appropriation of land. N-UNCOUNT: also a N, usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Seizure, capture, taking, taking to one's self. 2. Application, (to a particular use), assignment, devotion, allotment. 3. Sum set apart (for a specific object).

Moby Thesaurus

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