Associations to the word «Appropriation»
Noun
- Likeness
- Agriculture
- Hearing
- Lobbying
- Estimate
- Tuition
- Salary
- Payment
- Seniority
- Continuance
- Commerce
- Bills
- Sum
- Employee
- Pennsylvania
- Intervention
- Chairperson
- Exploitation
- Propriety
- Utility
- Representative
- Education
- Defense
- Legislator
- Schools
- Erection
- Fulfilling
- Ordinance
- Improvement
- Senator
- Deficiency
- Jurisdiction
- Harbor
- Buoy
- Borrowing
- Retirement
- Nea
- Reclamation
- Tax
- Purpose
- Restitution
- Department
- Labor
- Assent
- Compensation
- Chair
- Consideration
- Exposition
- Statute
- Repeal
- Pension
- Drafting
- Misuse
- Hereafter
- Deportation
- Cochran
- Resource
- Allowance
- Enforcement
- Readiness
- Tariff
- Administration
Adjective
Wiktionary
APPROPRIATION, noun. An act or instance of appropriating.
APPROPRIATION, noun. That which is appropriated.
APPROPRIATION, noun. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
APPROPRIATION, noun. (arts) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
APPROPRIATION, noun. (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
Dictionary definition
APPROPRIATION, noun. Money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose.
APPROPRIATION, noun. Incorporation by joining or uniting.
APPROPRIATION, noun. A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest".
Wise words
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