Thesaurus: appropriation

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1. n. 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. n. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
3. n. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
4. n. 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.
5. n. money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
6. n. incorporation by joining or uniting
7. n. a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner
8. 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.
9. n:100 n. money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose n. a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner