Meaning of APPROPRIATION
| Pronunciation: | | u`prowpree'eyshun
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- [n] a deliberate act of acquisition
- [n] incorporation by joining or uniting
- [n] money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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| | Synonyms: | | annexation |
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| | See Also: | | acquiring, adoption, borrowing, getting, incorporation, money, pork, pork barrel, preemption, pre-emption, requisition, seizure, sequestration | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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