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APPROPRIATION definition: 1. the act of taking something for your own use, usually without permission: 2. the act of taking…. Learn more.
The meaning of APPROPRIATION is an act or instance of appropriating something. How to use appropriation in a sentence.
APPROPRIATION meaning: 1. the act of taking something for your own use, usually without permission: 2. the act of taking…. Learn more.
An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose.
The grant of money by a legislature for some specific purpose. The authority to grant appropriations, popularly known as the power of the purse, gives legislatures a powerful check over executive branches and judicial branches, for no public money can be spent without legislative approval.
Appropriation is the act of taking something, usually without permission, like stealing your brother's french fries when he is momentarily distracted. Appropriation originally referred to the taking of private property, usually by the government.
noun. /əˌprəʊpriˈeɪʃn/ [uncountable, singular] (formal or law) the act of taking something that belongs to somebody else, especially without permission. dishonest appropriation of property. The film company sued them over their appropriation of a cartoon character.
