Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of appropriating.
- n. Something appropriated, especially public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
- n. A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of appropriating, setting apart, or assigning to a particular use or person in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose; specifically, an act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a special use.
- n. Anything appropriated or set apart for a special purpose, as money.
- n. . Acquisition; addition.
- n. In law: The annexing or setting apart of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation.
- n. The determining to which of several debts a sum of money paid shall be applied. If the debtor does not designate the appropriation, the creditor may; if neither has done so, and litigation arises, the court may do it.
Wiktionary
- n. An act or instance of appropriating
- n. That which is appropriated
- n. public funds set aside for a specific purpose
- n. art the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work
- n. sociology the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
- n. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation.
Blackstone . - n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
- n. incorporation by joining or uniting
- n. a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner
Examples
“Artists have, of course, been sticky-fingered for ages, long before the term "appropriation art" was ushered into the lexicon to describe the Pictures Generation.”
“In postmodern ideals, this kind of appropriation is - well, appropriate, fitting, part of the continual process we all go through of assimilating culture and creating new culture based on that assimilation.”
“The Texas Board of Medical Examiners was so overwhelmed with new physician applications it had to acquire a special appropriation from the legislature to hire more personnel.”
“Lifting the tuition cap would let universities break even with fewer public handouts, allowing schools to expand, if they so desire, without first seeking an appropriation from the government to do so.”
“That's because state law prevents any sort of payments – even IOUs – without an appropriation from the Legislature, Jordan said.”
“Traditional IP law: private appropriation is a precondition for production.”
“The appropriation from the central budget in this regard totaled 725.3 billion yuan, an increase of 21.8 percent over the previous year.”
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“Although appropriation is an old artistic technique, it is becoming much more common in our media-rich culture, and I would suggest that the growing importance of appropriation is a natural evolution in a society where we are constantly bombarded with images and sound bites.”
“By the way, has anyone ever heard where the idea of the short term appropriation originated?”
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“Given that nobody wants to repeal the AUMF, which is what really needs to be done, the D's should give up a "clean" short-term appropriation welded at the hip to a withdrawal trigger contingent on benchmarks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘appropriation’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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EMPL - Globalisation Fund
self-employed, uptake, entrepreneurship ..., re-training, reintegrate, compensate for pr..., redundant worker, adjusting agricul..., minimum threshold, collective agreement, eligible actions, reasoned analysis and 80 more...
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Thief Words
Words that deal with stealing and thievery!
steal, plunder, theif, robber, rob, take, kidnap, stole, take ownership, snatch, grab, hide and 19 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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post-colonial terms
aboriginal, abrogation, alterity, ambivalence, apartheid, appropriation, authenticity, binarism, black consciousness, cannibal, caribbean, cartography and 38 more...
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of little to no importance
clique, echo, bitters, thunderstorm, summertime, gams, mayday, chopsticks, loose leaf, homemade, curl, between and 13 more...
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Words I learned doing my AP Gov Assig...
I had a summer assignment for AP Government and there were A LOT of words I had to look up.... I wasn't even aware some of these words existed...
propensity, specious, declamation, obviate, faction, actuated, adversed, aggregate, curing, fallible, impracticable, insuperable and 51 more...
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