Canadian English Meaning of appropriation

appropriation

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Definitions and Meaning of appropriation in English

Wordnet

appropriation (n)

money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

incorporation by joining or uniting

a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner

Webster

appropriation (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.

Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

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.

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appropriation

money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose, incorporation by joining or uniting, a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without t

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