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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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