2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
appropriation
n 1: money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
2: incorporation by annexation [syn: {annexation}]
3: a deliberate act of acquisition
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