Associations to the word «Appropriation»
Noun
- Rep
- Audit
- Security
- Copying
- Secretary
- Purchase
- Necessity
- Vice
- Assemblage
- Money
- Seclusion
- Interior
- Theft
- House
- Reservation
- Dollar
- Modification
- Recess
- Colonialism
- Medicare
- Tenure
- Request
- Treaty
- Hayden
- Affair
- Reorganization
- Financing
- Workforce
- Imperialism
- Peso
- Rider
- Republican
- Adoption
- Objection
- Serve
- Debt
- Yearly
- Pork
- Government
- Federal
- Obligation
- Capitalism
- Privatization
- Grant
- Discretion
- Relief
- Imagery
- Disposal
- Emory
- Approval
- Program
- Construction
- Plaintiff
- Levee
- Intrusion
- Fortification
- Ethics
- Enlargement
- Iowa
- Banking
- Infrastructure
- Irony
- Incorporation
- Maintenance
- Lighthouse
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
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is
the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color
and content according to the circumstances and time in which
it is used.