APPROPRIATION
\ɐpɹˌə͡ʊpɹɪˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɐpɹˌəʊpɹɪˈeɪʃən], \ɐ_p_ɹ_ˌəʊ_p_ɹ_ɪ__ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of APPROPRIATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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a deliberate act of acquisition
By Princeton University
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money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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a deliberate act of acquisition
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of setting apart for a special use, or of taking to one self; anything set apart for a special purpose.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Assignment to a particular use, or to one's self.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The application of something to a particular purpose; the claim of any thing as peculiar; the fixing of a particular signification to a word; in law, a severing of a benefice ecclesiastical to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, or dean and chapter, bishoprick, or college.
By Thomas Sheridan
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