appropriation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: appropriation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for appropriation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
appropriation n money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose incorporation by joining or uniting Synonym(s): annexation, appropriation 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Appropriation \Appro`pria"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.